...Thomas Paine ihm gegeben hat, hervor1). „Some writers have so confounded society with government, äs to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas...Society is produced by our wants, and government by onr wickedness; the former promotes our happiuess positively by uniting our affections, the latter...

...assistance. Justice is the sum of all moral duty. Society and government are different in themselves, and have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society is in every state a blessing; government even in its best state but a necessary evil. General...

...uncoerced relations of people living under the same authority. "Society," Paine wrote in Common Sense, "is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness;...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices."24 It is this vision which animated the Jeffersonians and draws our attention to the role of...

...Essay on Manners. The theories of both men are suggested in the opening sentence of Common Sense: "Some writers have so confounded society with government,...as to leave little or no distinction between them." The concept of social change conflicted in the eighteenth century with another widespread notion of...

...entities, the former "produced by our wants", the latter "by our wickedness", the former promoting our happiness "positively, by uniting our affections",...the latter "negatively, by restraining our vices". On the question of the effects of commerce upon manners it is clear that Paine's views, which received...

...opening paragraph of Common Sense makes this re-evaluation of the public and private realms explicit: "society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices." With characteristic audacity, Paine reduces the virtues of classical republicanism to simple policing...

...allow — not force — this to happen. (Thomas Paine, calling government "a necessary evil," said, "Society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices [original emphasis]."49) Give people the freedom to pursue their ends and make contracts, and justice...

...its underlying rationale had been announced in the first paragraph of Common Sense when he said that: 'Society is produced by our wants and government by...affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.' In what looks in retrospect like a pre-emptive strike against such notions, Burke had given a diametrically...

...fine expression to the society/state contrast: 'Society and government are different in themselves and have different origins. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. Society is in every state a blessing; government even in its best state but a necessary evil.' Tocqueville...

...trennt, in ersterer das »System der Bedürfnisse« sieht, in letzterem nur ein notwendiges Übel (65): »Society is produced by our wants, and government...the latter negatively by restraining our vices.« Madison hatte in »government« einen positiven Ordnungs- und Hamilton einen aktiven Wirtschaftsfaktor...