Harrington and His Oceans: a Study of a 17th Century Utopia and Its Influence in America1914 - 223 páginas |
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Página 52
... direct appeal to the people , which would have been a clumsy procedure in the seventeenth century when communication was difficult , 1 " Political Aphorisms , " Nos . 74-77 , P. 519 . ↑ " Valerius and Publicola , ” p . 491. Cf ...
... direct appeal to the people , which would have been a clumsy procedure in the seventeenth century when communication was difficult , 1 " Political Aphorisms , " Nos . 74-77 , P. 519 . ↑ " Valerius and Publicola , ” p . 491. Cf ...
Página 53
... direct popular elections . If they produced a sense of responsibility they would produce disorder . He therefore preferred to give to an elective body the duty of weighing every argument calmly , and estimating the opinion of the ...
... direct popular elections . If they produced a sense of responsibility they would produce disorder . He therefore preferred to give to an elective body the duty of weighing every argument calmly , and estimating the opinion of the ...
Página 55
... direct form . At another time his motives seem to be aristocratic . For he had seen under direct democracy flagrant disorder and oppression compar- able with the oppression of a monarch ; and he hoped by mechanical devices to prevent ...
... direct form . At another time his motives seem to be aristocratic . For he had seen under direct democracy flagrant disorder and oppression compar- able with the oppression of a monarch ; and he hoped by mechanical devices to prevent ...
Página 116
... direct popular interference to three points - the right of electing representatives , the right of petitioning parliament , the right of sub- scribing consent to the constitution , under which the country is to be governed . Baxter ...
... direct popular interference to three points - the right of electing representatives , the right of petitioning parliament , the right of sub- scribing consent to the constitution , under which the country is to be governed . Baxter ...
Página 117
... direct democracy , because the power , which the people have , of " choosing the persons that they have " is different from " the power of governing . " He objected further to the tyranny of the majority , based on the demo- cratic ...
... direct democracy , because the power , which the people have , of " choosing the persons that they have " is different from " the power of governing . " He objected further to the tyranny of the majority , based on the demo- cratic ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 191 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Página 176 - I know some say, let us have good laws and no matter for the men that execute them. But let them consider that though good laws do well, good men do better. For good laws may want good men and be abolished or evaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer ill ones.
Página 24 - ... those that choose the representers for the making of laws by which this state and kingdom are to be governed, are the persons who, taken together, do comprehend the local interest of this kingdom; that is, the persons in whom all land lies, and those in corporations in whom all trading lies.
Página 24 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Página 194 - The Frame of Government. The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Página 105 - ... but it was carried by ballot that it was a steady government, though it is true by the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady government; so tomorrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the balance lay in one hand, and the government in another.
Página 147 - It is sufficiently understood that the opinion of right to property is of moment in all matters of government. A noted author has made property the foundation of all government; and most of our political writers seem inclined to follow him in that particular.
Página 194 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 203 - Though the people of the -world, in the dregs of the Gothic empire, be yet tumbling and tossing upon the bed of sickness, they cannot die ; nor is there any means of recovery for them but by ancient prudence, whence of necessity it must come to pass that this drug be better known. If France, Italy, and Spain were not all sick, all corrupted together, there would be none of them so; for the sick would not be able to withstand the sound, nor the sound to preserve their health, without curing of the...
Página 176 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.