The Palace of Crystal: A World Without WarWar has blighted the security and happiness of humanity from time immemorial, but when two hundred years ago the colonies in North America broke away from British rule and established the United States, it was seen as a hopeful promise for the peoples of the world. A new democracy had been launched wherein all (or at least, the majority) were deemed to be created equal in respect of their rights, and were citizens and not subjects, in a land of self-confident individualism, which was not only free of the hereditary-based authoritarianism of the Old World, but more significantly, seemed destined to live at peace with the great nation states beyond their frontiers. It was a nation where government was minimised to ensure freedom in the spheres of commerce, religion, and private life, but the ideals of universal concord were not so easily to be achieved by either the efforts of this new people, or by the world at large. |
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... rule . An uprising of the people , abetted by politicians , has today forced the king to concede rule to parliament once more . However the momentum of the resistance in the streets looks likely to depose the king altogether and install ...
... rule . An uprising of the people , abetted by politicians , has today forced the king to concede rule to parliament once more . However the momentum of the resistance in the streets looks likely to depose the king altogether and install ...
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... rule of law that had been established by the Commons was everywhere fairly applied . * Executive function of the democratic body was originally meant to be analogous to the autonomic system of control that maintains the human body . The ...
... rule of law that had been established by the Commons was everywhere fairly applied . * Executive function of the democratic body was originally meant to be analogous to the autonomic system of control that maintains the human body . The ...
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... rule of law is of supreme importance seemed to have been laid aside . The Australian prime minister John Howard was in America at this time , and was asked shortly afterwards on American television whether he thought that executing the ...
... rule of law is of supreme importance seemed to have been laid aside . The Australian prime minister John Howard was in America at this time , and was asked shortly afterwards on American television whether he thought that executing the ...
Contents
Consequences | 9 |
Chapter Two The Changing face of War | 17 |
Chapter Three Stony Ground | 29 |
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