Political Thought in England From Locke to Bentham 8 5
Political Thought in England From Locke to Bentham 8 5
Harold J Laski
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His picture of the royal prerogative was a portrait against every detailof which what was best in England had struggled in the preceding centuryand a half. He has nothing to say of the cabinet, nothing of ministerialresponsibility, nothing of the party system. What he did was to producethe defence of a non-existent system which acted as a barrier to alllegal, and much political, progress in the next half-century. He gavemen material without cause for satisfaction. As a description of the existi...ng government there is thus hardly anelement of Blackstone's work which could stand the test of criticalinquiry. But even worse was its philosophy. As Bentham pointed out, hewas unaware of the distinction between society and government. The stateof nature exists, or fails to exist, with startling inconsistency. Blackstone, in fact, was a Lockian who knows that Hume and Montesquieuhave cut the ground from under his master's feet, and yet cannotunderstand how, without him, a foundation is to be supplied.
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