Readings in Political ScienceRaymond Garfield Gettell Ginn, 1911 - 528 pages |
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... stages . For a long time history was dominated by the " great man " theory of politics ; attention was centered chiefly in the kings and the battles , the court intrigues and military problems . At a later period more emphasis was put ...
... stages . For a long time history was dominated by the " great man " theory of politics ; attention was centered chiefly in the kings and the battles , the court intrigues and military problems . At a later period more emphasis was put ...
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... stage in the evolution . The unwritten gradually turns into the written law , until the positive enactment is invested with the sanction of a sovereign command . As society develops , the law is in a perpetual process of change . No ...
... stage in the evolution . The unwritten gradually turns into the written law , until the positive enactment is invested with the sanction of a sovereign command . As society develops , the law is in a perpetual process of change . No ...
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... stages in its development before it reaches the political , and meanwhile other forces will control in larger degree the formation of the state . Some forms of political organization are even based upon national hostility between ...
... stages in its development before it reaches the political , and meanwhile other forces will control in larger degree the formation of the state . Some forms of political organization are even based upon national hostility between ...
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... stage , declare the essential elements of a State to be three in number . They are : ( 1 ) A community of people socially united . ( 2 ) A political machinery , termed a government , and administered by a corps of officials termed a ...
... stage , declare the essential elements of a State to be three in number . They are : ( 1 ) A community of people socially united . ( 2 ) A political machinery , termed a government , and administered by a corps of officials termed a ...
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... stage in which she has distanced all other countries , England had reached a high stage of agricultural develop- ment ; she has now acquired such a momentum that she could possibly survive as an industrial nation the exhaustion of her ...
... stage in which she has distanced all other countries , England had reached a high stage of agricultural develop- ment ; she has now acquired such a momentum that she could possibly survive as an industrial nation the exhaustion of her ...
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Page 304 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
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Page 220 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 109 - Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great : and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
Page 162 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Page 113 - But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
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