The Rationale of Political RepresentationR. Hunter, 1835 - 436 Seiten |
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... terms , and which therefore do not enable us to advance a single step in pratical knowledge , it is not possible to lay down a single general rule respecting the motives which influence human actions * . " The same writer had just ...
... terms , and which therefore do not enable us to advance a single step in pratical knowledge , it is not possible to lay down a single general rule respecting the motives which influence human actions * . " The same writer had just ...
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... term efficacy of punishment is only an abridged expression of this law of human nature ; it implies a general rule respecting the motives which influence human actions , and a rule on which all mankind C unhesitatingly and habitually ...
... term efficacy of punishment is only an abridged expression of this law of human nature ; it implies a general rule respecting the motives which influence human actions , and a rule on which all mankind C unhesitatingly and habitually ...
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... ( terms which all denote one and the same thing ) ; and if these rules relate to the effects of forms of government and measures of policy , they must be rules respecting the operation of motives , —such rules as he has just told us it is ...
... ( terms which all denote one and the same thing ) ; and if these rules relate to the effects of forms of government and measures of policy , they must be rules respecting the operation of motives , —such rules as he has just told us it is ...
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... terms may imply in the minds of those who use them , is one , the exercise of which , if it is not of a neutral character ( that is to say , of no impor- tance ) , is either beneficial or injurious to the com- munity . If the enjoyment ...
... terms may imply in the minds of those who use them , is one , the exercise of which , if it is not of a neutral character ( that is to say , of no impor- tance ) , is either beneficial or injurious to the com- munity . If the enjoyment ...
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... term ) are positive and tremendous curses ; the enlightened and virtuous legislator , in a representative government , is no fortuitous pro- duction , but the inevitable result of the posi- tion in which he is placed , and the ...
... term ) are positive and tremendous curses ; the enlightened and virtuous legislator , in a representative government , is no fortuitous pro- duction , but the inevitable result of the posi- tion in which he is placed , and the ...
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Seite 360 - 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 410 - 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 355 - 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 356 - 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 =5 the new.
Seite 59 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Seite 407 - 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 349 - 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.
Seite 412 - 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 137 - ... of its tide. I am sorry I cannot conclude without saying a word on a topic touched upon by my worthy colleague. I wish that topic had been passed by at a time when I have so little leisure to discuss it. But since he has thought proper to throw it out, I owe you a clear explanation of my poor sentiments on that subject. 5 He tells you that " the topic of instructions has occasioned much altercation and uneasiness in this city"; and he expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour...
Seite 410 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line.