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... Rule , provided an additional foundation stone in the practical working of self - disciplines necessary to liberty under law . The concept of democratic equality has little support in science either for the individual or for nations ...
... Rule , provided an additional foundation stone in the practical working of self - disciplines necessary to liberty under law . The concept of democratic equality has little support in science either for the individual or for nations ...
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... rule . Like Adam Smith's laissez faire , Bentham's Utilitarianism had great influence in England . His formula , “ the greatest happiness of the great- est number , " influenced all British statesmen . It dominated Disraeli , the leader ...
... rule . Like Adam Smith's laissez faire , Bentham's Utilitarianism had great influence in England . His formula , “ the greatest happiness of the great- est number , " influenced all British statesmen . It dominated Disraeli , the leader ...
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... rule of law . " An unprecedented step toward international en- forcement of human rights was taken in September 1958 , when the European Court of Human Rights was established . This Court , designed to protect certain basic individual ...
... rule of law . " An unprecedented step toward international en- forcement of human rights was taken in September 1958 , when the European Court of Human Rights was established . This Court , designed to protect certain basic individual ...
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... rule the ignorant masses and to create a new civilization . The Italian soci- ologist , Pareto , gave the supermen a new name , the elite . Pareto claimed that the political acts of ordinary men are governed more by emotional than ...
... rule the ignorant masses and to create a new civilization . The Italian soci- ologist , Pareto , gave the supermen a new name , the elite . Pareto claimed that the political acts of ordinary men are governed more by emotional than ...
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... rule or democracy is the ideal form of government . But at different stages of social evolution , some people are not yet ready for democracy and the attempt at self - rule may lapse into chaos , ending in tyranny or the dictatorship of ...
... rule or democracy is the ideal form of government . But at different stages of social evolution , some people are not yet ready for democracy and the attempt at self - rule may lapse into chaos , ending in tyranny or the dictatorship of ...
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Page 59 - establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this : Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.
Page 55 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 100 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Page 105 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Page 39 - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will and shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections, which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Page 59 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 22 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and From The Dialogues of Plato, tr.
Page 58 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion, and morality...
Page 64 - State, exerted within the limits of those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions...
Page 55 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.