Word: government
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Studying the nature of man, Locke wrote, leads to the discovery of what God has willed governments to be. "The state of nature," he said, "has a law to govern it, winch obliges everyone: and reason, winch is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." (This grouping of life, liberty and material wealth is fundamental to Locke, who also declared that "government has no other end but the preservation of property." Similar pronouncements have often appeared...
Since men form political compacts with winch to govern themselves, when any ruler transgresses the laws of nature or reason, then the governed may dissolve the compact. "In transgressing the law of nature," Locke wrote, "the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, winch is that measure God has set to the actions...
...wrote to the Continental Congress last fall to report that it was in a "convuls'd state" and needed guidance "with respect to a method for our administering justice and regulating our civil police." John Adams of Massachusetts was delighted to reply (indeed he published his Thoughts on Government last January for the guidance of all legislators with similar difficulties). Said he: "[Adopt] a plan resembling the government under which we were born. Kings we never had among us. Nobles we never had. But Governors and councils we have always had as well as representatives. A legislature in three...
...will of the people. Whereas their ancestors of 100 or 150 years ago mistrusted man's rationality and relied instead on the revelations of the Scriptures, modern American leaders believe that reason, at its best, is the voice of truth and God made manifest. Far from destroying legitimate government in the current Revolt, the authors of the Declaration believe that they are restoring it, returning to Americans the rights guaranteed them under the British Constitution, that "mirror of liberty" as Montesquieu has called it. "God himself does not govern in an absolutely arbitrary and despotic manner," said the late...
...been for some time represented on every parliamentary committee, and has played a large part in drafting and passing progressive legislation, such as the divorce bill and the proposed democratization of the armed forces. On the regional and municipal levels the PCI--who now govern all of the major cities of mainland Italy except Rome--have proved themselves to be comparatively honest and efficient administrators. What was contested during these elections was, in one sense, merely a formality, an admission of a change in the balance of power which has in reality already occurred, a change that has been gradually...