Considerations on Representative GovernmentParker, Son, and Bourn, 1861 - 340페이지 The form of government for any given country being (within certain definite conditions) amenable to choice, it is now to be considered by what test the choice should be directed; what are the distinctive characteristics of the form of government best fitted to promote the interests of any given society. |
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... society , may be unable to practise the for- bearances which it demands : their passions may be too violent , or their personal pride too exacting , to forego private conflict , and leave to the laws the avenging of their real or ...
... society , may be unable to practise the for- bearances which it demands : their passions may be too violent , or their personal pride too exacting , to forego private conflict , and leave to the laws the avenging of their real or ...
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... society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent could not subsist , but unavoidably broke up into petty principalities , either mutually independent , or held together by a loose tie like the feudal : because the ...
... society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent could not subsist , but unavoidably broke up into petty principalities , either mutually independent , or held together by a loose tie like the feudal : because the ...
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... society will obtain the governing authority ; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself . A nation , therefore , cannot choose its ...
... society will obtain the governing authority ; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself . A nation , therefore , cannot choose its ...
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... society will make itself strongest in the government , what is meant by power ? Not thews and sinews ; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist . To mere muscular strength , add two other elements ...
... society will make itself strongest in the government , what is meant by power ? Not thews and sinews ; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist . To mere muscular strength , add two other elements ...
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... society wield in the end that of government , therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion , is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces . One ...
... society wield in the end that of government , therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion , is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces . One ...
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administration administrative business advantage affairs amount appointed aristocracy assembly authority benefit candidate character citizens civilization conduct considerable constitution cracy degree democracy depends desirable despotism duty effect election electors equal evil exclusively exercise exist favour federal feeling form of government functions give greater HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE House House of Lords human important improvement India individual influence institutions intelligence interest JOHN WILLIAM DONALDSON justice knowledge labour legislation less majority manual labourers means member of parliament ment mental mind minister minority mode monarchy moral necessary object Octavo oligarchy opinion Parliament party permanent persons political popular portion possess practical present principle Progress purpose qualities question racter reason repre representation representative body representative government responsibility rule social society sufficient suffrage superior supposed things tical tion universal suffrage vote voter whole WILLIAM MASSEY
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281 페이지 - A PORTION of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality, if they are united among themselves by common sympathies, which do not exist between them and any others — which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government, and desire that it should be government by themselves or a portion of themselves, exclusively.
283 페이지 - Where the sentiment of nationality exists in any force, there is a prima facie case for uniting all the members of the nationality under the same government, and a government to themselves apart.
171 페이지 - ... choice, wherever there are real diversities of aptitude, the great number will apply themselves to the things for which they are on the average fittest, and the exceptional course will only be taken by the exceptions. Either the whole tendency of modern social improvements has been wrong, or it ought to be carried out to the total abolition of all exclusions and disabilities which close any honest employment to a human being. But it is not even necessary to maintain so much in order to prove...
98 페이지 - Instead of the function of governing for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government; to throw the light of publicity on its acts; to compel a full exposition and justification of all of them which anyone considers questionable; to censure them if found condemnable, and, if the men who compose the government abuse their trust, or fulfill it in a manner which conflicts with the deliberate sense of the nation, to expel them from...
91 페이지 - There is hardly any kind of intellectual work which so much needs to be done not only by experienced and exercised minds, but by minds trained to the task through long and laborious study, as the business of making laws.
83 페이지 - There is a radical distinction between controlling the business of government, and actually doing it. The same person or body may be able to control everything, but cannot possibly do everything ; and in many cases its control over everything will be more perfect, the less it personally attempts to do.
46 페이지 - ... by free institutions, should at times sigh for a strong hand to bear down all these obstacles, and compel a recalcitrant people to be better governed. But (setting aside the fact, that for one despot who now and then reforms an abuse, there are ninety-nine who do nothing but create them) those who look in any such direction for the realization of their hopes leave out of the idea of good government its principal element, the improvement of the people themselves.
104 페이지 - ... first, general ignorance and incapacity, or, to speak more moderately, insufficient mental qualifications, in the controlling body; secondly, the danger of its being under the influence of interests not identical with the general welfare of the community.
337 페이지 - Palgrave (Sir F.)— HISTORY OF NORMANDY AND OF ENGLAND. By Sir FRANCIS PALGRAVE, Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Public Records. Completing the History to the Death of William Rufus.