A Glance At Government Short Essays On the Rise And Basis of Government the St
A Glance At Government Short Essays On the Rise And Basis of Government the St
Cicero Willis Harris
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he legislated merely for the day : impatient to grasp everything at once, he did not lay very deep and secure the foundations of social order and popular freedom. The Italian republics, modelled on those of an- tiquity, and adapted to the purposes of mediaeval trade, fell far short of perfection. Faction became the curse of all, and on the ruins of democracy arose a number of ducal and princely houses. The law of liberty has been the law of progress, but, as in culture and civilization generall...y, 3* 30 A GLANCE AT GOVERNMENT. there have not been wanting evidences of sad decline. We take heart from what we see and feel about us in contrast with what we know is behind. Whether government, as has been insisted by Rousseau and Jefferson, is based altogether in its original on contract or consent, or, as held by writers of the adverse school, on power, is neither worth our while to consider as a practical question nor to reject altogether as having no interest for the political stu- dent. What we know is that at some stage in human development the idea of consent was adopted.
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