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... numerous , and the opinion of the greatest number is paramount in such a society , a democracy is the government of a numerical majority . A second kind of democracy requires some 28 THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT . [ Aristotle ,
... numerous , and the opinion of the greatest number is paramount in such a society , a democracy is the government of a numerical majority . A second kind of democracy requires some 28 THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT . [ Aristotle ,
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... majority is without check or control , and as dema- gogues wield that opinion , and draw everything under the cognizance and jurisdiction of that majority , they rule as they will , and pass what decrees they please . Again , demagogues ...
... majority is without check or control , and as dema- gogues wield that opinion , and draw everything under the cognizance and jurisdiction of that majority , they rule as they will , and pass what decrees they please . Again , demagogues ...
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... majority who enact the laws will cause them to be respected . Now the union of these several qualities and cha- racteristics - the freedom of a democracy , the wealth of an oligarchy , the intellectual and moral qualities , the high ...
... majority who enact the laws will cause them to be respected . Now the union of these several qualities and cha- racteristics - the freedom of a democracy , the wealth of an oligarchy , the intellectual and moral qualities , the high ...
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... majority are masters of the state , and are more dis- posed to be attached to their government , as it is founded on justice and equity . On the other hand , when power is in the hands of the merely wealthy , it is apt to be misused ...
... majority are masters of the state , and are more dis- posed to be attached to their government , as it is founded on justice and equity . On the other hand , when power is in the hands of the merely wealthy , it is apt to be misused ...
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... majority told by the head becomes therefore law . Thence arises the subjec- tion of the upper classes to the lower , and the consequent licentiousness and tyranny of the latter under the idea that liberty consists in living according to ...
... majority told by the head becomes therefore law . Thence arises the subjec- tion of the upper classes to the lower , and the consequent licentiousness and tyranny of the latter under the idea that liberty consists in living according to ...
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Page 224 - To be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; To be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences...
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Page 202 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 173 - Let me say with plainness, I who am no longer in a public character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope to their understandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency.
Page 226 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 169 - It is the business of the speculative philosopher to mark the proper ends of government. It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends. and to employ them with effect.
Page 173 - Then the monopoly of mental power will be added to the power of all other kinds it possesses. On the side of the people there will be nothing but impotence ; for ignorance is impotence ; narrowness of mind is impotence ; timidity is itself impotence, and makes all other qualities that go along with it impotent and useless.
Page 233 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.