Beschouwingen over het begrip en de uitoefening van souvereiniteit

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J.B. Huber, 1889 - 186 páginas

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Página 11 - Trouver une forme d'association qui défende et protège de toute la force commune la personne et les biens de chaque associé, et par laquelle chacun, s'unissant à tous, n'obéisse pourtant qu'à lui-même, et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant!
Página 147 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 147 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 71 - Vous devez donc être persuadé que les rois sont seigneurs absolus, et ont naturellement la disposition pleine et libre de tous les biens qui sont possédés, aussi bien par les gens d'Église que par les séculiers, pour en user en tout temps comme de sages économes (I, 301).
Página 164 - On the question of strikes, for instance, it is doubtful if there is so much as one among the leading members of either House, who is not firmly convinced that the reason of the matter is unqualifiedly on the side of the masters, and that the men's view of it is simply absurd. Those who have studied the question, know well how far this is from being the case ; and in how different, and how infinitely less superficial a manner the point would have to be argued, if the classes who strike were able...
Página 154 - The consideration which tells most, in my judgment, in favour of two Chambers (and this I do regard as of some moment) is the evil effect produced upon the mind of any holder of power, whether an individual or an assembly, by the consciousness of having only themselves to consult.
Página 116 - To which we may answer that whenever it ceases to be true that mankind, as a rule, prefer themselves to others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment Communism is not only practicable but the only defensible form of society, and will, when that time arrives, be assuredly carried into effect.
Página 68 - A good despotism means a government in which, so far as depends on the despot, there is no positive oppression by officers of state, but in which all the collective interests of the people are managed for them, all the thinking that has relation to collective interests done for them, and in which their minds are formed by, and consenting to, this abdication of their own energies. Leaving things to the Government, like leaving them to Providence, is synonymous with caring nothing about them, and accepting...
Página 172 - ... sans jamais les altérer ou les corrompre dans leur source, qui est l'opinion; si elle se contente d'être à ses propres yeux comme ces frontispices des vieux temples démolis que les anciens replaçaient en évidence dans la construction des temples nouveaux, pour tromper le respect superstitieux de la foule et pour imprimer à l'édifice moderne quelque chose des traditions de l'ancien, la royauté représentative subsistera un nombre d'années suffisant pour son œuvre de préparation et...
Página 132 - Tous les citoyens, dans les divers districts, doivent avoir droit de donner leur voix pour choisir le représentant, excepté ceux qui sont dans un tel état de bassesse qu'ils sont réputés n'avoir point de volonté propre.

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