Democracy, Liberty, and Property: Readings in the American Political TraditionFrancis William Coker |
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Page 184
... give to property , merely as such , a control over the people numerically considered . But this I take not to be at all the true nature of the proposition . The senate is not to be a check on the people , but on the house of ...
... give to property , merely as such , a control over the people numerically considered . But this I take not to be at all the true nature of the proposition . The senate is not to be a check on the people , but on the house of ...
Page 318
... give in his private affairs , so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their Substance , for the Administration of publick affairs . And in both cases more are ready generally to offer their Service at the ...
... give in his private affairs , so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their Substance , for the Administration of publick affairs . And in both cases more are ready generally to offer their Service at the ...
Page 333
... give this experiment fair play , and get rid , while we may , of those ty- rannical laws . It is true we are as yet secured against them by the spirit of the times . I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution ...
... give this experiment fair play , and get rid , while we may , of those ty- rannical laws . It is true we are as yet secured against them by the spirit of the times . I doubt whether the people of this country would suffer an execution ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
From A Modell of Christian Charity 1603 | 17 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT OF NEW HAVEN 1639 | 26 |
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