First Principles in PoliticsG.P.Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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... Democracy and Liberty was given to the world , I had the pleasure of receiv- ing a copy from the author . In expressing my thanks for the gift , I told you that I was engaged upon a work dealing , to some extent , with the same topic ...
... Democracy and Liberty was given to the world , I had the pleasure of receiv- ing a copy from the author . In expressing my thanks for the gift , I told you that I was engaged upon a work dealing , to some extent , with the same topic ...
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... Democracy ; next , it will be judged in its principles and in its working ; and lastly , the various remedies proposed for its evils will be considered Modern Democracy is the direct issue of the French Revolution . So much will be ...
... Democracy ; next , it will be judged in its principles and in its working ; and lastly , the various remedies proposed for its evils will be considered Modern Democracy is the direct issue of the French Revolution . So much will be ...
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William Samuel Lilly. of modern Democracy which differentiates it from all that the world has hitherto known by that name , and which led Mill to denounce it as " False Democracy : " a usurpation of the name of Democ- racy veiling ...
William Samuel Lilly. of modern Democracy which differentiates it from all that the world has hitherto known by that name , and which led Mill to denounce it as " False Democracy : " a usurpation of the name of Democ- racy veiling ...
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... Democracy , and the corruption of the State in which it issues , three apologies put forward for it must be briefly considered . They may be termed respectively , the Abstract or a pri- ori , the Utilitarian , and the Sentimental PAGE ...
... Democracy , and the corruption of the State in which it issues , three apologies put forward for it must be briefly considered . They may be termed respectively , the Abstract or a pri- ori , the Utilitarian , and the Sentimental PAGE ...
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... Democracy is , in effect , that all people seek what it is to their interest to have that it is to the interest of the majority to have good government : and that therefore the majority should bear rule · But the Utilitarian apology for ...
... Democracy is , in effect , that all people seek what it is to their interest to have that it is to the interest of the majority to have good government : and that therefore the majority should bear rule · But the Utilitarian apology for ...
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absolute animal Aquinas Aristotle assuredly Benoist Bluntschli called chapter civil civilised classes common commonwealth COMPULSORY VOTING conception condition conscience consider Considerations on Representative constitutional contract corruption crime criminal criminal anthropologists deputies doctrine doubt duty election electors England English equal ethical evil existence expression fact faculty False Democracy Force Publique France freedom French French Revolution function House of Lords human nature Ibid idea individual insists intellectual interests Jacobin justice labour legislation liberty majority marriage matter means ment Mill moral nation observe organised organism passions penal person philosophers physical possess practical present primogeniture principle punishment question realised reason recognised reform regard Representative Government Rousseau sanction self-government sense Sir Henry Maine social society sophisms sovereign sovereignty Summa Theologica suppose things tion Trade Unions true truth universal suffrage virtue vote Whigs words wrong
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Página 289 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Página 89 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Página 61 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government...
Página 67 - Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of a commonwealth. But here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Página 153 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página xxx - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Página 210 - The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes.
Página 67 - And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing. For God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious.
Página 224 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 3 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.