 As most citizens have sufficient ability to choose, though unqualified to be chosen, so the people, though capable of calling others to an account for their administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. The public business...  The spirit of laws. Transl. 1st Amer. ed - Page 26by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...their adminiftration, are incapable of the adminiftration themfelves. The public bufinefs muft however be carried on, with a certain motion neither too quick nor too flow. But the action of the common people is always either too remifs or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred thoufand... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1773 - 532 pages
...adminiftration, are incapable of conducting the adminiftration themfelves. The public bufinefs muft be carried on, with a certain motion, neither too...flow* But the motion of the people is always either tod remifs or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred thoufand arms they'overturn all before them ; and... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1794 - 390 pages
...for their adminiflration, are incapable of the aclminiftration themfelves. The public bufmefs muft be carried on, with a certain motion neither too quick...It is in the manner of making this divifion, that that great legiflators have fignalized themfflves ; and it is on this the duration and prosperity of... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes • >l with... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1910 - 1114 pages
...administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. " The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred... | |
 | Charles Henry Betts, Theodore Roosevelt - Employers' liability - 1912 - 110 pages
...administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. "The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people, is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 618 pages
...administration, are incapable of conducting the administration themselves. The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred... | |
 | Montesquieu - Law - 1977 - 522 pages
...opportunities to point out the inadequacies of the masses. "The public business," he writes, "must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. But the motion of the people is always either too remiss or too violent. Sometimes with a hundred... | |
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