...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...reatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...deals. There is the ideal of an aristocracy and the ideal of what he calls constitutional government, a mixed constitution. The principle of “tools t... ...o say that ruling and being ruled over by turns is an essential feature of constitutional government, which he admits as an alternative to aristocracy... ...ens may have their wives, and children, and goods in common, as in Plato’s Commonwealth; for in that Socrates affirms that all these particulars ought... ...thage; for they have an eye to these two particulars when they elect their officers, particularly those of the highest rank, their kings and their gen... ... Socrates, and some other legislators, gave them the power of electing the officers of the state, and also of inquiring into their conduct when they c... ...verned by laws which admit the poorest citizen to share the honours of the commonwealth according to his worth. But whenever a whole family or any one...

...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...LICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...in with the vices of his temperament, high prin- ciple concurring with his constitutional love of ease, we need not wonder that he should early retire... ...sappointment perhaps it was which brought on a vio- lent attack of Swift’s constitutional malady. On the last of August he quitted Pope’s house abrupt... ...n and for- bearance. He was indeed a favorable specimen of French military officers under the old system; well bred, not arro- gant, well informed, an... ...as be- come a known power, and a power of growing magnitude, for the great commonwealth of Christendom. Luther and Kepler, potent intellects as they w...

...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he ...

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...by referendum No- vember 1976; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials, in- cluding ... ...ength: ANA, 4 seats; APP, 2 seats; 1 independent Communists: none Member of: Commonwealth Economy GDP: $6 million, $6,000 per capita (1983 est.) Agric... ...ll leftist nationalist group led by Leonard (Tim) Hector Member of: CARICOM, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ILO, IMF, ISO, OAS, UN, UNESCO, WHO,... ...n adopted 1920, repromulgated 1945; judicial review of legislative acts by a Constitutional Court; separate administrative and civil/penal supreme cou... ...2,620 km 2 ; land area: 110,620 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Pennsylvania Land boundaries: 1,963 km total Coastline: 121 km Maritime c... ...posed of the Bailiff (President ex officio), 12 Conseillers, 2 nonvoting Law Officers of the Crown, 33 popularly elected People's Deputies, 10 Douzain... ... Conseillers it is composed of the Bailiff, 12 Jurats, 12 Conseillers, 2 Law Officers, 33 People's Deputies, 34 Douzaine Representatives, and 4 Aldern...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...d Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of an ardent faith, great sacrifices may be obtained from the members of a commonwealth by an appeal to their un- derstandings and their experience; e... ...e and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient f... ...iged to bear arms; they formed a national militia, which appointed its own officers, and was to hold itself at all times in readiness to march for the... ...arn- ing may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeav- ors. . . .”* Here follow claus... ...State; and to this end all the privileges of the *[As it existed under the constitutional monarchy down to 1848.] 126 Democracy in America courts of ... ...ajority represented in the other House, which is contrary to the spirit of constitutional gov- ernment. These facts show how rare and how difficult it...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...N Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...gular revolution which, in one whom all his friends looked upon as sold to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and... ...ich had accompanied the revolution in his life, that concurrently with the constitutional torpor previously besetting him, had melted away the intelle... ... that the lady selected for the post, with the fullest approbation of both officers, was one who began life as the daughter of a little Lincolnshire f... ...nished by our experience in 55 Thomas de Quincey Affghanistan, where some officers, wishing to impress Akhbar Khan with the beauty of Christianity, v... ...ly contracted from that scale which had been suitable when great kings and commonwealths were con- stant suitors within the gates of Delphi, still clu...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ion North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d afterward that Mount Vernon was accessible, and I rode thither with some officers of the staff of Gen- eral Heintzelman, whose outside pickets were ... ...; and these committees have relations with the ministers. But they have no constitutional power over the ministers; nor have they the much more valuab... ...derance you must take your chance. But we absolutely decline to employ our officers to catch your slaves.” That list comprises, as I take it, the amou... ...th the full consent of the legislatures of thirty- three States, could not constitutionally put down slavery in the remaining thirty-fourth State. In ... ...rnment these gentlemen have simply been the confi- dential servants of the commonwealth under the Presi- dent, and have been attached each to his own ... ... blood? No one, I think, can doubt that the founders of the great American Commonwealth made an error in omitting to provide some means for the gradua...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...phlets and weekly papers against those very measures. Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but o... ... can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, a... ...s, inter- missions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athe- nian commonwealth. The ambitious cardinal, who was prime minister to Henry VIII.... ...itting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, clashing, tumultuous commonwealths, the wretched nurseries of un- ceasing discord, and the miser... ...organization of the members be not abol- ished; so long as it exists, by a constitutional necessity, for local purposes; though it should be in perfec... ...that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionally binding on the members of the Union, yet in practice they ...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...ry is good, when the proper tests are prescribed for the qualifications of officers, the proper rules for their pro motion; when the business is conv... ...which, so far as depends on the despot, there is no positive oppression by officers of state, but in which all the collective interests of the people ... ... be, we may imagine a despot observing many of the rules and restraints of constitutional government. He might allow such freedom of the press and of ... ...urse? Is he to defer to the nation? If so, he is no longer a despot, but a constitutional king; an organ or first minister of the people, distinguishe... ...duced to the Eunomia by which Ath ens was distinguished among the ancient commonwealths. But in the more advanced states of modern Europe, and especi...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................