The Duties And The Rights Of Man: A Treatise On Deontology: In Which Are Demonstrated The Individual, Social And International Duties Of Man, And His Indirect Duties Towards Animals
The Duties And The Rights Of Man: A Treatise On Deontology: In Which Are Demonstrated The Individual, Social And International Duties Of Man, And His Indirect Duties Towards Animals
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...after, but which can be obtained only in the life to come. It is, moreover, perfectly certain that the civil power is directly constituted, in order that it may procure for the people public good. It is likewise beyond doubt that men have destined other men to exercise over them this power, with a view ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...after, but which can be obtained only in the life to come. It is, moreover, perfectly certain that the civil power is directly constituted, in order that it may procure for the people public good. It is likewise beyond doubt that men have destined other men to exercise over them this power, with a view to securing their public temporal welfare. For this end, they have placed themselves under the direction and guardianship of persons invested with civil power, in preference to others to whom such power might have been given. It is, therefore, evident that the people, in the constitution of civil society, have chosen and made their head, and that the people are made neither by the head, nor for the head. If the above be true, it follows that, whenever the people are altogether dissatisfied with their impious and unjust head, they may withdraw from him his power, and impart it unto others. In such cases, the dictates of reason prove that the people, according to the rights of Nature, may be justified in so doing. No one can testify better than they, whether due interest is taken by the authorities in their behalf, and whether the greater good, which is the end of society, is procured for them, or not. Moreover, the people, in founding society, did not intend to bind themselves for ever under the authority of one or more; nor did they wish such authority to last for ever in the successors of those who held it. We cannot suppose that people would have been so foolish as to deprive themselves of their right to confer authority on whomsoever they might wish. Besides, how could it be proved from the universal order of things, that the authority to command must for ever abide only in the special individual, or family, that, in the beginning, was...
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