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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 134 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=204gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 134 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=204gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOVERNMENT. " The Arabs say, There is no better ruler than iudement. no safer guardian than justice, no stronger sword than right, no ally surer ti.an truth.' "The Ode says, 'As we cut axe-handles, we grr.gp one handle to 1-tw another.' So the wise governor uses what is in man to reform men." There has been a great many forms of government since the world began; the few have ever striven to rule the many, and have succeeded, but the struggle still goes on of the many to be free. It is a natural instinct to revolt against a despotic ruler; no man ought to have absolute power. Monarchy, where it did not degenerate into tyranny, was at its best but a government for the benefit of a single ruler ? as aristocracy became oligarchy, a government for the exclusive benefit of the governing class, as we find by the privileges of landowners existing at the present day. The fear of democracy is mob rule ? a reign of terror; when the majority, imperfectly acquainted, wi::1 the facts and the arguments on which sound political judgments must be founded, and nezessarily the most ignorant portion of the community, have the power to exercise, by their greater number, a tyranny over the more enlightened minority. I want the people to be free, and to have as much political power as possible, but at present I would rather things remained as they are, than hand the governing power over to the mere majority. Aristotle advocated a mixed government, the union of aristocracy and democracy. Plato, in his laws, shadowed forth a tripartite government, which Cicero holds to have been realised in the Roman Constitution ? a balance of the three powers, King, Lords, and Commons, which forms the basis of the English Constitution ? a system that theoretically seems perfect, the one party acting ...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOVERNMENT. " The Arabs say, There is no better ruler than iudement. no safer guardian than justice, no stronger sword than right, no ally surer ti.an truth.' "The Ode says, 'As we cut axe-handles, we grr.gp one handle to 1-tw another.' So the wise governor uses what is in man to reform men." There has been a great many forms of government since the world began the few have ever striven to rule the many, and have succeeded, but the struggle still goes on of the many to be free. It is a natural instinct to revolt against a despotic ruler no man ought to have absolute power. Monarchy, where it did not degenerate into tyranny, was at its best but a government for the benefit of a single ruler ? as aristocracy became oligarchy, a government for the exclusive benefit of the governing class, as we find by the privileges of landowners existing at the present day. The fear of democracy is mob rule ? a reign of terror when the majority, imperfectly acquainted, wi::1 the facts and the arguments on which sound political judgments must be founded, and nezessarily the most ignorant portion of the community, have the power to exercise, by their greater number, a tyranny over the more enlightened minority. I want the people to be free, and to have as much political power as possible, but at present I would rather things remained as they are, than hand the governing power over to the mere majority. Aristotle advocated a mixed government, the union of aristocracy and democracy. Plato, in his laws, shadowed forth a tripartite government, which Cicero holds to have been realised in the Roman Constitution ? a balance of the three powers, King, Lords, and Commons, which forms the basis of the English Constitution ? a system that theoretically seems perfect, the one party acting ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<