 ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times...  Works - Seite 445von Edmund Burke - 1792Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Philip Arnold Gibbons - 1914 - 64 Seiten
...Paine, ' more than a management of the affairs of the nation ?' ' However it may have been usurped, it is not, and from its nature cannot be, the property...particular man or family, but of the whole community ; so that the nation has an inherent right to abolish any government that it finds inconvenient, and... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. ging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain...radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and whose expense it is supported ; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Sir Robert Birley - 1924 - 64 Seiten
...by the power of Parliament.'4 Paine in The Rights of Man states the same principle, ' The Government is not, and from its nature cannot be the property...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported.' 5 This is the Utilitarian theory, but there is a great difference between... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general Revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is Government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Ronnie D. Lipschutz - 1995 - 266 Seiten
...social contract conception as simply liberal/American ideology. If one agrees with Thomas Paine that "What is government more than the management of the affairs of a nation? It is not," and further that sovereignty rests with the nation, which has always the right "to abolish any form of... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 1997 - 560 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community at whose expense it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2002 - 300 Seiten
...creatures of imagination; and a thousand such may be contrived, as well as three. Rights of Man, I, 1791 What is government more than the management of the affairs of a Nation? Rights of Man, I, 1791 Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society... | |
 | Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 Seiten
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
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