An Essay on the First Principles of Government PDF Download

Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: John Dykes
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Nathaniel Chipman
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Benjamin Constant
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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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.

Author: Nathaniel Chipman
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Jean Jacques Burlamaqui
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: John Dykes
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
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Author: Emer de Vattel
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Nathaniel Chipman
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Observations on the tendency in government to dissolution, from a corruption of its principles.--Plan of reformation incorporated in the constitution.--Its probable effects in perpetuating its duration..Montesquieu, speaking of that kind of government, which was established through Europe try the conquerors of the Roman Empire, says--" It was a good government that had in itself a capacity of growing better." This capacity of growing better was not the effect of any direct intention of the founders, nor, if perceived, was its cultivation, generally, an object of pursuit. Accordingly, we have seen this kind of government almost universally, degenerating into a species of despotism, under an absolute monarchy, or an aristocracy equally absolute. If any of those governments have admitted improvements, these improvements never have been deliberately made, in consequence of any plan of reformation adopted in the constitution. They have been constantly introduced by violence, or, in a concurrence of circumstances, little, if at all intended or foreseen. Notwithstanding the foregoing observation of Montesquieu, he appears to join in the opinion, which has very generally prevailed, that governments, like men, carry in themselves from their very origin, the seeds of dissolution; that man is fatally incapable of forming any which shall endure without degenerating. I am, however, apprehensive, that on enquiry, we may, so far as it relates to government, find reason to doubt the correctness of this opinion. A more general development of the laws of social nature, and the principles resulting from those laws, may discover, that although in the infancy of mankind, from which, perhaps, those nations who have made the greatest advances, have hardly emerged, ...

Author: Thomas Nugent
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358786631
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Languages : en
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