On DemocracyTrübner & Company, 1866 - 418 sider |
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Side ii
... conflicts , and reconstruction . The other work , the present one , is a consideration of the general theory of Democracy , with special refer- ence to the traditions and future of England . ON DEMOCRACY . " If the popular party exceed ...
... conflicts , and reconstruction . The other work , the present one , is a consideration of the general theory of Democracy , with special refer- ence to the traditions and future of England . ON DEMOCRACY . " If the popular party exceed ...
Side x
... present point to the opinion of the majority as our future master , there is only the greater reason for educating " the royal infant , the People , " while we may . To be a politician , it is necessary to believe and to know . To ...
... present point to the opinion of the majority as our future master , there is only the greater reason for educating " the royal infant , the People , " while we may . To be a politician , it is necessary to believe and to know . To ...
Side xii
... present , and believe in all that , their future , —must rise to all their Heights , and measure all their Depths , -must at once believe and disbelieve in the People . And this thoroughness and clearness of vision will especially avoid ...
... present , and believe in all that , their future , —must rise to all their Heights , and measure all their Depths , -must at once believe and disbelieve in the People . And this thoroughness and clearness of vision will especially avoid ...
Side xiii
... present state of prepared- ness of England for political equality , I see in our Institutes of Feudality , and in corporate anti- popular interests both in Church and State , abundant elements wherewith to " temper " the advance of ...
... present state of prepared- ness of England for political equality , I see in our Institutes of Feudality , and in corporate anti- popular interests both in Church and State , abundant elements wherewith to " temper " the advance of ...
Side xx
... present such a striking coincidence and concentration of authority on most important points , that I have thought it best to present their appropriate dicta together as mottoes at the commencement of each chapter , that their XX PREFACE .
... present such a striking coincidence and concentration of authority on most important points , that I have thought it best to present their appropriate dicta together as mottoes at the commencement of each chapter , that their XX PREFACE .
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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.