83. (III.) One's own country is the neighbor according to its goods, spiritual, moral, and civil. In the idea of every man his country is as one. All the laws, therefore, both the laws of justice and economical laws, are enacted as for one. One's country, then, is as it were a man in the concrete; and it is called a body, in which the king is supreme. Its good which is to be promoted is called the public good, and the common good. It is said also of the king that the people are in the body of his government.