The Rationale of Political RepresentationR. Hunter, 1835 - 436 Seiten |
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... less . The instinct of power in the executive during these successive struggles , in which it became more and more manifest how vain it was to expect success in an open contention with the Commons , soon prompted a recourse to the arts ...
... less . The instinct of power in the executive during these successive struggles , in which it became more and more manifest how vain it was to expect success in an open contention with the Commons , soon prompted a recourse to the arts ...
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... from each other more or less in all these circumstances , and even varying in themselves at different times . Being thus dissimilar and variable compounds , it would be a violation of the uniform operation of causes and 20 INTRODUCTION .
... from each other more or less in all these circumstances , and even varying in themselves at different times . Being thus dissimilar and variable compounds , it would be a violation of the uniform operation of causes and 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... less valid from the circum- stance of its being unconsciously made by every one in his progress through life ; so that the prin- ciple resulting from it appears rather an intuitive truth , than one which has been derived from experience ...
... less valid from the circum- stance of its being unconsciously made by every one in his progress through life ; so that the prin- ciple resulting from it appears rather an intuitive truth , than one which has been derived from experience ...
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... less analogous ; but it is at all times useful to have the aid of closely- resembling examples . The closer the resemblance is between any two instances , the more cer- tain we shall feel that we have overlooked no essential element ...
... less analogous ; but it is at all times useful to have the aid of closely- resembling examples . The closer the resemblance is between any two instances , the more cer- tain we shall feel that we have overlooked no essential element ...
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... less general and extensive power is unable to accomplish . And not only is it to be regarded as supplementary because such things alone fall within its legi- timate province as private efforts cannot effect , but the same character ...
... less general and extensive power is unable to accomplish . And not only is it to be regarded as supplementary because such things alone fall within its legi- timate province as private efforts cannot effect , but the same character ...
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Seite 358 - I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Seite 408 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes : and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil.
Seite 353 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Seite 407 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention.
Seite 135 - But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Seite 410 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.
Seite 354 - All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Seite 59 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Seite 405 - Far am I from denying in theory ; full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or, to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. 1f civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Seite 347 - I was much acquainted with the leading patriots of the Assembly. Being from a country which had successfully passed through a similar reformation, they were disposed to my acquaintance, and had some confidence in me. I urged, most strenuously, an immediate compromise ; to secure what the government was now ready to yield, and trust to future occasions for what might still be wanting.