The Foundations of the Modern CommonwealthHarper & Brothers, 1923 - 491 páginas |
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... promote , the interests of all those whose support is essential to the stability of their position . The Federal Government therefore , he argued , should be so constituted and its officers equipped with such authority as would enable ...
... promote , the interests of all those whose support is essential to the stability of their position . The Federal Government therefore , he argued , should be so constituted and its officers equipped with such authority as would enable ...
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... promote some particular interest or combination of interests which at the moment they identify with the general welfare . of interests Some political philosophers have held the opinion that , The conflict if one knows what a man does ...
... promote some particular interest or combination of interests which at the moment they identify with the general welfare . of interests Some political philosophers have held the opinion that , The conflict if one knows what a man does ...
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... promote the individual's best interests can account for but a part , and probably a small part , of the total quantity of political obedience in the modern world . Impulsive and instinctive obedience must be a more important factor than ...
... promote the individual's best interests can account for but a part , and probably a small part , of the total quantity of political obedience in the modern world . Impulsive and instinctive obedience must be a more important factor than ...
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... promote the cause of revolution , but to strengthen and sustain its hold upon the allegiance of the masses of men . By no writer has this idea of state been set forth more elaborately than by the eminent French constitutional lawyer ...
... promote the cause of revolution , but to strengthen and sustain its hold upon the allegiance of the masses of men . By no writer has this idea of state been set forth more elaborately than by the eminent French constitutional lawyer ...
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... promote the general welfare , and ( 5 ) to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity . This is the final statement of the ends for which the American Commonwealth exists . statement theory of Every state exists ...
... promote the general welfare , and ( 5 ) to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity . This is the final statement of the ends for which the American Commonwealth exists . statement theory of Every state exists ...
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Página 173 - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Página 209 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Página 23 - Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Página 390 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Página 378 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in a free and open encounter?
Página 223 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 395 - 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, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
Página 175 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Página 205 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that• all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 406 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.