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... openly avowed an opinion that corruption in some form was a necessity as a counterpoise to the overwhelming power of the House of Commons . CHAPTER II . DAVID HUME ON OUR MIXED CONSTITUTION . OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY . 25.
... openly avowed an opinion that corruption in some form was a necessity as a counterpoise to the overwhelming power of the House of Commons . CHAPTER II . DAVID HUME ON OUR MIXED CONSTITUTION . OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY . 25.
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... at least as to preserve the ancient Constitu- tion from danger . " " We may , " Hume observes , " call this by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence , but some degree and some kind of it OUR MIXED CONSTITUTION . 27.
... at least as to preserve the ancient Constitu- tion from danger . " " We may , " Hume observes , " call this by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence , but some degree and some kind of it OUR MIXED CONSTITUTION . 27.
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... corruption became almost universal . In the reign of George III , the King entered the market with great spirit , the Ministry and the Opposition competed for seats , and boroughs were openly sold by auction . Nevertheless through all ...
... corruption became almost universal . In the reign of George III , the King entered the market with great spirit , the Ministry and the Opposition competed for seats , and boroughs were openly sold by auction . Nevertheless through all ...
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... corruption . On the contrary , during the twenty years which followed , pecuniary corruption in the large towns as well as in the small boroughs was probably more general than in any former time . The close boroughs and the old monopoly ...
... corruption . On the contrary , during the twenty years which followed , pecuniary corruption in the large towns as well as in the small boroughs was probably more general than in any former time . The close boroughs and the old monopoly ...
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... corrupt that its beneficence is nullified . The condition of the civil social man ( to use Burke's phrase ) had in France become intoler- able , and human nature revolted . It was a condition of which the Abbé Galiani truly observed ...
... corrupt that its beneficence is nullified . The condition of the civil social man ( to use Burke's phrase ) had in France become intoler- able , and human nature revolted . It was a condition of which the Abbé Galiani truly observed ...
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Page 124 - THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Page 47 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Page 184 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Page 47 - Men have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful.
Page 127 - The laws which, in many countries on the Continent, forbid marriage unless the parties can show that they have the means of supporting a family, do not exceed the legitimate powers of the state : and whether such laws be expedient or not (a question mainly dependent on local circumstances and feelings), they are not objectionable as violations of liberty.
Page 47 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 48 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock ; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society ; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Page 27 - We may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please ; we may call it by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence ; but some degree and some kind of it are inseparable from the very nature of the constitution, and necessary to the preservation of our mixed government.
Page 71 - Je suis fils de Brutus, et je porte en mon coeur La liberte gravee et les rois en horreur.
Page 57 - Yet such a government might, as far as we can perceive, ' insure to every man the greatest possible quantity of the