A Disquisition on GovernmentThis volume provides the most economical and textually accurate version of Calhoun's Disquisition available today. As a treatise, the Disquisition is one of the greatest and most enduring works of American political thought, and a text of seminal importance to all students of American politics, history, philosophy, and law. |
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It may be difficult , or even impossible , to make a perfect organism , — but ,
although this be true , yet even when , instead of the sense of each and of all , it
takes that of a few great and prominent interests only , it would still , in a great
measure ...
It may be difficult , or even impossible , to make a perfect organism , — but ,
although this be true , yet even when , instead of the sense of each and of all , it
takes that of a few great and prominent interests only , it would still , in a great
measure ...
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n assume this to be the sense of the community . It is only when aided by a
proper organism , that it can collect the sense of the entire community , — of each
and all its interests ; of each , through its appropriate organ , and of the whole ...
n assume this to be the sense of the community . It is only when aided by a
proper organism , that it can collect the sense of the entire community , — of each
and all its interests ; of each , through its appropriate organ , and of the whole ...
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On the contrary , all absolute governments , of whatever form , concentrate power
in one uncontrolled and irresponsible individual or body , whose will is regarded
as the sense of the community . And , hence , the great and broad distinction ...
On the contrary , all absolute governments , of whatever form , concentrate power
in one uncontrolled and irresponsible individual or body , whose will is regarded
as the sense of the community . And , hence , the great and broad distinction ...
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| Наслов | A Disquisition on Government Library of American freedoms |
| Аутор | John Caldwell Calhoun |
| Уредник | H. Lee Cheek |
| Издање | поново одштампано издање |
| Издавач | St. Augustine's Press, 2007 |
| Оригинал из | Универзитет Индијана |
| Дигитализовано | 6 мај 2010 |
| ISBN | 1587311852, 9781587311857 |
| Дужина | 90 страница |
| Извоз навода | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |