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Side viii
... association . France , feudality , or , " the fusion of property and sovereignty . " Scandinavia , the organisation of monarchy as a confederation , of which the organic germ or unit was the hoerad or hundred . Anglo - Saxondom , the ...
... association . France , feudality , or , " the fusion of property and sovereignty . " Scandinavia , the organisation of monarchy as a confederation , of which the organic germ or unit was the hoerad or hundred . Anglo - Saxondom , the ...
Side xxv
... Association and Nationality ; The People and great Men CHAPTER IX . - Democracy in America ; The Prece- dent ; The Conservatism of Democracy . BOOK II . 175-193 195-230 CHAPTER I. - Democracy in England ; From Tacitus to the Reform Bill ...
... Association and Nationality ; The People and great Men CHAPTER IX . - Democracy in America ; The Prece- dent ; The Conservatism of Democracy . BOOK II . 175-193 195-230 CHAPTER I. - Democracy in England ; From Tacitus to the Reform Bill ...
Side 5
... Association , but compels them to it . It is the necessary habit of men with ideas in common , and it is the notorious custom of free countries . Thus education begets association , and the asso- ciation of educated men is already ...
... Association , but compels them to it . It is the necessary habit of men with ideas in common , and it is the notorious custom of free countries . Thus education begets association , and the asso- ciation of educated men is already ...
Side 11
... it can never reach it by a peaceful road . * Notwithstanding all the culture of former ages , the natural fruits of Development and association were never reaped within the reach of the asso- ciated ITS FACTORS AND CONDITIONS . 11.
... it can never reach it by a peaceful road . * Notwithstanding all the culture of former ages , the natural fruits of Development and association were never reaped within the reach of the asso- ciated ITS FACTORS AND CONDITIONS . 11.
Side 12
... associations against it . Freedom was gradually overcome and forced back by centralisation in Church and in State , and had , after its one glorious success , to yield to the Stuarts and to the families , and to their one hundred and ...
... associations against it . Freedom was gradually overcome and forced back by centralisation in Church and in State , and had , after its one glorious success , to yield to the Stuarts and to the families , and to their one hundred and ...
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advance America ancient Anglo-Saxon aristocracy Aristotle assembly association balance become capital centralisation Church civilisation common complete conquer conservatism Constitution cracy Demo Democracy Democratic despotism destroyed election empire England English epoch equal voting established Europe Executive exist fact families feudal force franchise freedom Goldwin Smith Government Hegel human individual institutions intellect interests J. S. Mill King labour land legislative liberty Lords manhood Development means ment Mill mixed Government monarchy Montesquieu moral national manhood national unity nature necessity never non-intervention obstruct oligarchy opinion organisation Parliament plural voting political popular Popular Sovereignty preponderating power primogeniture principle privilege progress question reason Reform religion religious representation representatives Republic result revolution rule says secure self-Government Slavery society soul Sovereign Sovereignty spirit statute suffrage Tacitus theory things tion tism Tocqueville true universal universal suffrage vidual villeins wealth whilst whole witenagemot
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Side 267 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Side 187 - No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in the opinions, qualities, and tone of mind which it fosters, ever did or could rise above mediocrity, except in so far as the sovereign Many have let themselves be guided (which in their best times they always have done) by the counsels and influence of a more highly gifted and instructed One or Few.
Side 385 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war.
Side 124 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Side 408 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Side 124 - The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.
Side 195 - America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself - perhaps in a contest between North and South America.
Side 201 - Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states, the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side, and not on the other; the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. "As this government is composed of...
Side 265 - An Act for taking away the Court of wards and liveries and tenures in capite, and by knights service, and purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof...
Side 45 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.