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32 results for your search term: “origin of government”.
Nassau Senior argues that government is based upon extortion (1854)
It is obvious, however, that the division of labour on which government is founded, is subject to...
Rousseau on the natural tendency of governments to degenerate into tyranny (1762)
First, when the prince ceases to administer the State in accordance with the laws, and usurps the...
Herbert Spencer on the right of political and economic “dissenters” to have their different beliefs and practices respected by the state (1842)
The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force ...
John Taylor and the rhetoric of liberty and tyranny (1814)
Mr. Adams has cautioned us against the abuse of political phrases, whilst he reiterates the expre...
Mises and the Emergence of Etatism in Germany (1944)
The most important event in the history of the last hundred years is the displacement of liberali...
Guizot on the legitimacy of state power and its limits (1851)
What is true concerning the child and the imbecile is true of man in general: the right to power ...
James Buchanan on chaining Leviathan (1975)
If, however, the collectivity is empowered to enforce individual rights, how is it to be prevente...
Algernon Sidney on not unquestioningly “rendering unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” before checking to see if they legitimately belong to Caesar (1689)
Our author (Filmer) confines the subject’s choice to acting or suffering, that is, doing what is ...
Gustave de Beaumont and Irish liberty (1839)
Rouse, Hibernians, from your slumbers! See the moment just arrived, Imperious tyrants for to humb...
Benjamin Franklin and the Need for Unity among the Colonies
…I imagine such an union might thereby be made and established; for reasonable, sensible men, can...
Adam Smith, Patriotism, and the Welfare of Our Fellow Citizens
The love of our country seems, in ordinary cases, to involve in it two different principles; firs...
Mercy Otis Warren on Civil and Religious Rights and Tyranny
This hope shall not yet be relinquished. There has indeed been some relaxation of manners, and th...