On DemocracyTrübner & Company, 1866 - 418 sider |
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... preponderating power of which the only final and universal issue is Demo- cracy ; and , as far as I know , only four , De Tocque- ville , Bentham , Coleridge , * and Goldwin Smith , who have ventured to deride that God of English ...
... preponderating power of which the only final and universal issue is Demo- cracy ; and , as far as I know , only four , De Tocque- ville , Bentham , Coleridge , * and Goldwin Smith , who have ventured to deride that God of English ...
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... Preponderating Power of the Past and its Organisation ; or , Demo- cracy and Local Self - Government 277-296 CHAPTER IV . — Innovations and Usurpations ; How they came and what they will lead to 297-325 CHAPTER V. - The Preponderating ...
... Preponderating Power of the Past and its Organisation ; or , Demo- cracy and Local Self - Government 277-296 CHAPTER IV . — Innovations and Usurpations ; How they came and what they will lead to 297-325 CHAPTER V. - The Preponderating ...
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... preponderating power , which will ultimately represent national unity , and become the equal rule of the all , it is but safety , economy and common sense to admit and prepare for our future rulers . And since Democracy involves ...
... preponderating power , which will ultimately represent national unity , and become the equal rule of the all , it is but safety , economy and common sense to admit and prepare for our future rulers . And since Democracy involves ...
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... preponderating force which governs , but who seems to advocate always some " nucleus of opposition " thereto , not to temper , but to obstruct or defy it . " I regard it ( Representative Government , ' pp . 234-48 ) as a fundamental ...
... preponderating force which governs , but who seems to advocate always some " nucleus of opposition " thereto , not to temper , but to obstruct or defy it . " I regard it ( Representative Government , ' pp . 234-48 ) as a fundamental ...
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... preponderating middle class is the safest and best for the State . Democracy has Moreover , where 4th . That the main reason why Aristotle at- tached so great importance to the preponderance of a middle class , was that ignorance and ...
... preponderating middle class is the safest and best for the State . Democracy has Moreover , where 4th . That the main reason why Aristotle at- tached so great importance to the preponderance of a middle class , was that ignorance and ...
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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.