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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: 24 '- CHAPTER II. VIRTUES AND VICES OF MIXED GOVERNMENT. All the advantages which can be shown to arise from checks and balances in the system of government, are peculiarly the produce of that combination of different powers and principles in which a Mixed Government consists; and it becomes unnecessary to discuss these minutely. But it may be well to state that the three great advantages which a Mixed Government possesses over every other, are its protecting the public interest from the risk of rash, ill-concerted councils, its securing the freedom and the rights of all classes in the community, and its maintaining the stability of the political system. 1. The prevention of rash counsels is most surely obtained from the conflict, or rather the mutual counter-action, of different independent powers in one system. If one party is to detail, however ably, however fairly, before a judge the whole merits of any case, unopposed, we know full well how many views of the subject, how many arguments, and how many facts, will escape his best attention. But if two, less able, incomparably less candid, appear before the judge, nay each as unfair and as violent in his statements as possible, their contention will leave no point unsifted, and the whole matter will soon be ripe for safe decision. In the former instance, the judge will hesitate and pause, fear to go wrong, falter in doing right; and after his utmost care he will never be quite sure that he has avoided error. In the latter instance he will have no anxiety at all, unless the facts are necessarily obscure, and the principles ill ascertained by the law; EFFECT OF MIXED GOVERNMENT. 25 and he will generally give a speedy, a complete, and a correct decision. In like manner no better safeguard can be devised agains...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217658485 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217658482 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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