Democracy, Liberty, and Property: Readings in the American Political TraditionFrancis William Coker |
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... object of my book ? 2 I was not writing a history of England , nor of the world . Inattention to this circum- stance has been the cause of all the honest misapprehensions , mis- constructions , and misrepresentations of the whole work ...
... object of my book ? 2 I was not writing a history of England , nor of the world . Inattention to this circum- stance has been the cause of all the honest misapprehensions , mis- constructions , and misrepresentations of the whole work ...
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... object , and can have no difference , except in the choice of means or measures for effecting that object . And here I ought to close this paper , and would close it , if there were no apprehension that more injurious consequences than ...
... object , and can have no difference , except in the choice of means or measures for effecting that object . And here I ought to close this paper , and would close it , if there were no apprehension that more injurious consequences than ...
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... object . It is evident that these properties must increase in proportion to the separation and simplification of objects , and the steadiness of the attention devoted to each ; and must be less in proportion to the complication of objects ...
... object . It is evident that these properties must increase in proportion to the separation and simplification of objects , and the steadiness of the attention devoted to each ; and must be less in proportion to the complication of objects ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
From A Modell of Christian Charity 1603 | 17 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT OF NEW HAVEN 1639 | 26 |
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