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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tion, or a conflagration spreads through a block of contiguous buildings, so the evils of ambition or despotism in a concentrated government might have extended to the outermost limits of universal society, instead of being circumscribed by the boundaries of continents, islands, peninsulas, or small states. By many experiments of civil polity, the principles and arts of government are more likely to be perfected and commended to universal adoption. The distribution of a limited sovereignty among the States of the American confederacy, is auspicious for the New World and our glorious Republic. Government would else, extending over such variety of climates, interests, and communities, become oppressive, chafing, and irritating, like a warrior's coat of mail without joints. Study the accessories of freedom and despotism in other social and religious institutions. A conflict for religious liberty parallel to the contest for civil liberty has been maintained between different forms of ecclesiastical government. Freedom in Church and State abet each other; and despotism in Church and State always league together. Distinguish between those forms of ecclesiastical polity which have abetted, and those which have been hostile to civil liberty?those which defend the rights of the people and confide government to them, and those which make them mere automatons. In the language, No bishop, no king, James taughta great lesson of political wisdom?the inherent and universal tendency of hierarchy in the Church to support monarchy in the State. By this distribution, it is an easy and convenient institution. There is a scope for various experiments in reformatory law, example, emulation, and more minute direction of the popular will. All Americans should study to some extent the history and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217506502 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021750650X |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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