[17:5] Then to subjection to Moses.
[17:6] Then to a Theocracy with the power divided between the high priest and the captains.
[17:7] The tribes confederate states.
[17:8] Restraints on the civil power.
[17:9] Restraints on the people.
[17:A] Causes of decay involved in the constitution of the Levitical priesthood.
[18:0] [CHAPTER XVIII.] - From the Commonwealth of the Hebrews and their History certain Lessons are deduced.
[18:1] The Hebrew constitution no longer possible or desirable, yet lessons may be derived from its history.
[18:2] As the danger of entrusting any authority in politics to ecclesiastics - the danger of identifying religion with dogma.
[18:3] The necessity of keeping all judicial power with the sovereign - the danger of changes in the form of a State.