On Civil Liberty and Self-governmentLawbook Exchange, Limited, 2001 - 629 páginas Widely read and used as a political science textbook, this is the best known of Lieber's work. He was a prominent political philosopher who helped lay the foundation for the study of political science in the United States. Renowned for his theory of civil liberty presented here, which combined an appreciation for the English concept of decentralized political institutions with the German idea of an overall national purpose, he bridged the intellectual gap between Europe and America. Enlarged edition in one volume, having first been published in two volumes in 1853. xiv, 629 pp. |
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... despot or dictator deceives and unfits the people for a better civil state . This is at least true with reference to all tribes not utterly lost in despotism , as the Asiatics are . The periods succeeding those of great and bril- liant ...
... despot or dictator deceives and unfits the people for a better civil state . This is at least true with reference to all tribes not utterly lost in despotism , as the Asiatics are . The periods succeeding those of great and bril- liant ...
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... despotism , whether this consists in the satrap despot- ism of the east , ( in which the pacha or satrap embodies indeed the general principle of unfreedom in relation to his superior , but is a miniature despot or sultan to all below ...
... despotism , whether this consists in the satrap despot- ism of the east , ( in which the pacha or satrap embodies indeed the general principle of unfreedom in relation to his superior , but is a miniature despot or sultan to all below ...
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... despotism has reigned , but it can be done only by much undoing , and breaking down ; by a great deal of rough ploughing . We cannot prepare a people for liberty by centralized despotism , any more than we can prepare for light by ...
... despotism has reigned , but it can be done only by much undoing , and breaking down ; by a great deal of rough ploughing . We cannot prepare a people for liberty by centralized despotism , any more than we can prepare for light by ...
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