The Foundations of the Modern CommonwealthHarper & Brothers, 1923 - 491 páginas |
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... century , " than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few . " However surprising this observation may have been to thinking men like Hume , it seemed at the middle of the eighteenth century to be supported by the facts ...
... century , " than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few . " However surprising this observation may have been to thinking men like Hume , it seemed at the middle of the eighteenth century to be supported by the facts ...
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... In 1789 the Revolution broke out in France , and the ancien régime fell with a crash that shook the foundations of society throughout the civilized world . A century and more of political instability fol 2 THE MODERN COMMONWEALTH.
... In 1789 the Revolution broke out in France , and the ancien régime fell with a crash that shook the foundations of society throughout the civilized world . A century and more of political instability fol 2 THE MODERN COMMONWEALTH.
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Arthur Norman Holcombe. world . A century and more of political instability fol lowed . At the opening of the Great War there was no important state in which political authority was as closely held in the hands of a few rulers as in 1776 ...
Arthur Norman Holcombe. world . A century and more of political instability fol lowed . At the opening of the Great War there was no important state in which political authority was as closely held in the hands of a few rulers as in 1776 ...
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... century , and its constitution has become one of the oldest in existence among the European peoples . Indeed —and this is a striking commentary on the political insta- bility which has persisted elsewhere in Europe — the French ...
... century , and its constitution has become one of the oldest in existence among the European peoples . Indeed —and this is a striking commentary on the political insta- bility which has persisted elsewhere in Europe — the French ...
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... century . He was one of the wisest men who took part in the framing of the Constitution of the United States . It was he who finally moved the adop- tion of that venerable instrument , itself despite its imper- fections a great monument ...
... century . He was one of the wisest men who took part in the framing of the Constitution of the United States . It was he who finally moved the adop- tion of that venerable instrument , itself despite its imper- fections a great monument ...
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Página 171 - 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 207 - 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 392 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 221 - 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 368 - When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.
Página 175 - When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.
Página 353 - I can no more be persuaded that the Government can constitutionally take no strong measures in time of rebellion, because it can be shown that the same could not be lawfully taken in time of peace, than I can be persuaded that a particular drug is not good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one.
Página 35 - If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Página 174 - The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, ie, of the proletariat organized as the ruling class, and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Página 206 - ... divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other, than to cooperate for their common good.