Author: Carl Joachim FriedrichPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 737
Book Description
Man and his government
Author: Carl Joachim FriedrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 737
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The Nature of Man and His Government
Author: Robert LeFevrePublisher: Laissez Faire Books
ISBN: 1621290468
Category : State, The
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Man and His Government
Author: Louis J. WalinskyMan and His Government
Author: Carl Joachim FriedrichPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE
Author: Herbert SpencerThoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Man and the State
Author: Jacques MaritainPublisher:
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Category : Man And State
Languages : en
Pages :
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Man and His Government
Author: Harley W. MitchellPrinciples of Politics Applicable to All Governments
Author: Benjamin ConstantPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.
The Principles of Representative Government
Author: Bernard ManinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458917
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.