The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II

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Author: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting),1851-1919
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II

€6,34

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II

€6,34
Author: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting),1851-1919
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.

Born in Paris in 1805, died in 1859; studied law, taking his degree in 1826; traveled in Italy and Sicily; in 1831 visited the United States under a commission to study the penitentiary system; returning published a book on the subject which was crowned by the French Academy; from private notes taken in America then wrote his masterpiece, "Democracy in America," which secured his election to the Academy in 1841; spent some years in public life and then retired in order to travel and write. I hold it to be an impious and execrable maxim that, politically speaking, the people has a right to do whatever it pleases; and yet I have asserted that all authority originates in the will of the majority. Am I then in contradiction with myself? A general law, which bears the name of justice, has been made and sanctioned not only by a majority of this or that people, but by a majority of mankind. The rights of every people are consequently confined within the limits of what is just. A nation may be considered in the light of a jury which is empowered to represent society at large and to apply the great and general law of justice. Ought such a jury, which represents society, to have more power than the society in which the law it applies originates? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 25751
Author: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Release Date: Jun 10, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919 , Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

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