| Thomas Robbins - 560 Seiten
...and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. We see in those... | |
| Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." 14 Can we not... | |
| Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."14 Can we not see in those words the sentiments of an old republican, aware of the compromises... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 Seiten
...and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before...despotic government, being incapable of any other. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, debates in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September... | |
| Fred Douglas Young - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before...to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.24 Some of Weaver 's sharpest barbs were aimed at what has come to be referred to simply as "the... | |
| Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...that although the new government would likely "be well administered for a course of years," it would "end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."69 "Only a virtuous... | |
| Gerald Robert Vizenor - 2000 - 254 Seiten
...and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it,...to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."56 Natives might have heard, twelve years earlier, the stories of his clever overtures of constitutional... | |
| Dee Hock - 1999 - 366 Seiten
...if well administered. . . . [It] can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We are living on the knife's edge of one of those rare and momentous turning... | |
| Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...it, when the people shall hecome so corrupted as to need despotic government, heing incapable of my other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may he able to make a hetter Constitution; for, when you assemble a numher of men, to have the advantage... | |
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