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...e nature of freemen, the other to that of slaves. Domestic government is a monarchy, for that is what pre- vails in every house; but a political state... ...that of Lacedsemon; for they say, that this is composed of an oligarchy, a monarchy, and a democ- racy, their kings representing the monarchical part,... ...many parts. But now in this government of Plato’s there are no traces of a monarchy, only of an oligarchy and democracy; though he seems to choose tha... ...nce it is evident, that such a state will not consist of a democracy and a monarchy, and this will be further proved by what we shall say when we come... ...ocracy into an oligarchy, and a state into a democracy. Now a tyranny is a monarchy where the good of one man only is the object of government, an oli... ... the true spirit of each of them. A tyr- anny then is, as has been said, a monarchy, where one per- son has an absolute and despotic power over the wh... ...hment, became the kings of a willing people, and established an hereditary monarchy. They were particularly their generals in war, and presided over t... ... government at Dyrrachium, and nearly the same at Opus. As for an absolute monarchy as it is called, that is to say, when the whole state is wholly su... ...ways esteemed a species of the four sorts; and thus they reckon them up; a monarchy, an oligarchy, a democracy, and this fourth which they call an ari...

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... upon to conquer still other fields. It has be- come apparent that in this monarchy of ours, in which honour is heaped high upon money-making, even if... ...Plutarch entered the circle of En- glish reading. T o-day the Aristocratic Monarchy is an almost universally accepted fact in the British Empire, and ... ...nces that must follow from the unchallenged acceptation of an aristocratic monarchy, con- sequences that do not seem to be sufficiently recognized in ... ...e got round that corner they will have to face the fact that an Hereditary Monarchy is a state in which this principle is repudiated at a cardinal poi... ...t American condi- tions we must turn in repudiating our British hereditary monarchy. We have to seek some better thing upon which British and American... ...petually with the pathogenic bacteria that infest the world. The theory of monarchy is, no doubt, inferior to the democratic theory in stimulus, but t... ...n. In a democratic commu- nity whose principle is “hustle,” in a leisurely monarchy where only opulence, a powerful top-note, and conspicuous social g...

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...ies in- troduced an element of democratic liberty into the bosom of feudal monarchy; the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on... ...of the sovereignty of the people had been introduced into the bosom of the monarchy of the House of T udor. The religious quarrels which have agitated... ...ican. The colonies still recognized the supremacy of the mother-coun- try; monarchy was still the law of the State; but the republic was already estab... ... tinent of Europe, at the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury, absolute monarchy had everywhere triumphed over the ruins of the oligarchical and fe... ...he one was favorable to liberty, the other to despotism. Under the ancient monarchy the King was the sole author of the laws, and below the power of t... ...his end all the privileges of the *[As it existed under the constitutional monarchy down to 1848.] 126 Democracy in America courts of justice are tem... ...in some respects more central than the King’s Government in the old French monarchy. The external relations of a people may be compared to those of pr... ...nts, therefore, the Union exercises more central authority than the French monarchy possessed, although the Union is only an assemblage of con- federa... ... these discrepancies France is more akin to a republic than the Union to a monarchy – Comparison of the number of public officers depending upon the e...

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...arly in that condition. “It would, no doubt,” says Mr. *“The vitals of the monarchy lay within that vast triangle circumscribed by the Danube, the Sav...

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...erpose a question: What are the true forms of government? Are they not three—monarchy , oli- garchy , and democracy? and the distinctions of free- dom... ... compulsion, law and no law, poverty and riches expand these three into six. Monarchy may be divided into royalty and tyranny; oligarchy into aristocr... ... according to law, whether by the help of science or opinion, this is called monarchy; and when he has royal science he is a king, whether he be so in... ..., so that the whole number of them, including the best, will be seven. Under monarchy we have already distin- guished royalty and tyranny; of oligarch... ...lato seems to stumble, almost by accident, on the notion of a constitutional monarchy , or of a monarchy ruling by laws. The divine foundations of a S... ...nd, first, let me ask you a question. YOUNG SOCRATES: What? STRANGER: Is not monarchy a recognized form of government? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: ... ...y a recognized form of government? YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes. STRANGER: And, after monarchy, next in order comes the government of the few? YOUNG SOCRATES: ... ...ays apply to them; the two first they subdivide accordingly , and ascribe to monarchy two forms and two corresponding names, royalty and tyranny . YOU... ...e forms of government, which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion—monarchy, the rule of the few, and the rule of the many . YOUNG SOCRATES:...

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...ing all the functions of a sovereign, the state would have become simply a monarchy, only differing from other monarchies in the fact, that the latter... ... which could not be called a popular government, nor an aristocracy, nor a monarchy, but a Theoc- racy. For the right of interpreting laws was vested ... ...e, little accustomed to kings, changed its first form of government into a monarchy, civil war raged almost continuously; and battles were so fierce a... ...der each form of government, we shall find a great discrepancy. Before the monarchy forty years and more often passed, and once eighty years (an almos... ... to kings, and possessing a complete code of laws, 41 Spinoza to set up a monarchy. Neither can the subjects brook such a sway, nor the royal authori... ...uld seem to be a slave rather than a master. The repre- sentative of a new monarchy will employ all his zeal in attempt- ing to frame new laws, so as ... ...vil, till at last it changed its government again to a form differing from monarchy, as in England, only in name. As for the United States of the Neth...

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...ty but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a lim ited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democ racy, is a progress toward a ...

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...el, it is evident that the book was written after the establishment of the monarchy. (84) The books of Samuel need not detain us long, inasmuch as the... ...kings the name of Moses, who set up a dominion entirely dif- ferent from a monarchy. CHAPTER IX Endnote 11. (1) “With few exceptions.” (2) One of thes...

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...those who think it is impossible to be both republican and noble in heart. Monarchy and the republic are two forms of government which do not stifle n...

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...erfluous to refer to any other: but consider the long duration of absolute monarchy. In England at present it is the almost universal conviction that ... ... an unnatural order of things anywhere. Again, the theo rists of absolute monarchy have always affirmed it to be the only natural form of government;...

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...olitical constitution because people commonly do so). Of these the best is Monarchy, and Timocracy the worst. [Sidenote: II6ob] From Monarchy the defl...

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... peace for a distracted nation in 1647, on terms which seemed fatal to the monarchy; peace for the same nation under the prospect of war rising up aga... ...Gothic, Hunnish, and Avar monarchies.’ But, on consider- ation, the Gothic monarchy embosomed the germs of a noble civilization; whereas the Saracens ...

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...my Jour- nal; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men... ...our of unques- tionable superiority. ‘Sir, (said he,) you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republick.’ He was still more mortified, when ...

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...t which we have been describing, and which may be said to have two names, monarchy and aristocracy, accordingly as rule is exercised by one distin g...

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...d, may not improbably conceive that a system which works well here under a monarchy, would absolutely fail under a presidency of four years’ duration....

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...other should have any share in it. And it would have but ill supported the monarchy they contend for, when by the very name it appeared that that fund... ...om it both in its constitution, power, and end; or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, abso 47 Concer... ...narch in it, abso 47 Concerning Civil Government, 2nd Essay – Locke lute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain b... ... still in the state of Nature. 90. And hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted for the only government in the world... ...lence all those that dare question it. For what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of *“To take away all such mutual grievances, injuri... ...by experience, they had found both easy and safe. To which if we add, that monarchy being simple and most obvious to men, whom neither experience had ... ...croachments of prerogative or the inconveniencies of absolute power, which monarchy, in succession, was apt to lay claim to and bring upon them; it wa... ...ught safe enough in his honesty and prudence; though they never dreamed of monarchy being jure Divino, which we never heard of among mankind till it w... ..., can show me any one man, in any age of the world, free to begin a lawful monarchy, I will be bound to show him ten other free men at liberty, at the...

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...rban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable “third estate” of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the pe riod of manufacture prope... ...riod of manufacture proper, serving either the semi feu dal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, corner sto... ...ht their enemies, but the enemies of their enemies, the remnants of absolute monarchy, the landowners, the non industrial bourgeois, the petty bourgeo... ...ly, of the Prus sian bourgeoisie, against feudal aristocracy and abso lute monarchy, in other words, the liberal movement, became more earnest. By ...

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...s. Some nations could not, except by foreign conquest, be made to endure a monarchy; others are equally averse to a republic. The hindrance often amou... ... the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent could not subsist, but unavoidably... ..., would generally be best also in an absolute monar chy, only an absolute monarchy is not so likely to practice it. The laws of property, for example... ...atively insignificant Oriental people—the Jews. They, too, had an absolute monarchy and a hierarchy, and their organized in stitutions were as obviou... ... a common form of speech, that if a good despot could be insured, despotic monarchy would be the best form of government. I look upon this as a radica... ...ominal, would possess few of the advantages supposed to belong to absolute monarchy, while it would realize in a very imperfect degree those of a free... ...me passages of history forcibly illustrate another mode in which unlimited monarchy overcomes obstacles to the progress of civilization which represen... ...Meanwhile, it may be laid down as a political truth, that by irresponsible monarchy rather than by representative gov ernment can a multitude of insi... ...d government, as 62 Considerations on Representative Government in a pure monarchy or democracy. This is the portion of truth in the opinion of the a...

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...here ever was a sovereign who bid fair to realize the project of universal monarchy, it was the Emperor Charles V ., of whose intrigues Wolsey was at ... ...ing which their constitutions would acquire a progressive direction toward monarchy. It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expen... ...driven to the alternative ei- ther of taking refuge at once in the arms of monarchy, or of splitting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, cl... ...ding the sphere of popular government, and reconciling the ad- vantages of monarchy with those of republicanism. “It is very probable,” (says he*) “th... .... In the kingdom of Great Britain, where all the ostentatious apparatus of monarchy is to be provided for, not above a fif- teenth part of the annual ... ... prosecution of the ambitious enter- prises and vainglorious pursuits of a monarchy are not a proper standard by which to judge of those which might b... ...cian dis- covers in the Constitution a direct and irresistible tendency to monarchy; that is equally sure it will end in aristocracy. An- other is puz... ... one re- publican branch only, combined with an hereditary aristocracy and monarchy, has, with equal impropriety, been frequently placed on the list o... ...ent of misrepresentation. Calculat- ing upon the aversion of the people to monarchy, they have endeavored to enlist all their jealousies and apprehens...

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...ob Rome’s ancient geese 273 of all their glories, And, cackling, save the monarchy of T ories? Hold—to the minister I more incline; To serve his caus... ...R DRYDEN—HIS POLITICS, RELIGION, MORALS. MR DRYDEN is a mere renegado from monarchy, poetry, and good sense 453 —a true republican son of monarchical ... .... de la Bruyère declares it to be the character of every good subject in a monarchy; ‘where,’ says he, ‘there is no such thing as love of our country;...

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...tural philosophy, geometry, and history. This would be a kind of universal monarchy, with which the principle of self-love that is in man will scarce ...

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...t great commotion. I knew only that the French had thrown off the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV . and XV ., had put the King and Queen to death, guil... ...tion and mental improvement of all ranks of the people, under the Prussian monarchy, than under the English representative government: and he held, wi...

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...pire, at the impoverishment of the French peas- antry by a too centralised monarchy before the revolution, or at the huge degenerative growth of the g... ... for many years before the Romans fully realised that they had returned to monarchy. S S S S Sec. 8 ec. 8 ec. 8 ec. 8 ec. 8 The American universities ...

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...iers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with th... ...in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait. He was reb... ...ike the Sudanese, would eventually hear warnings, including from the Saudi monarchy. 72 Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be... ...as a Sunni religious/nationalist opposition to the British-backed Egyptian monarchy , spread throughout the Arab world in the mid–twentieth century . ... ...ce report, interrogation of KSM, Feb. 20, 2004. On warnings from the Saudi monarchy, see Intelligence report,Timeline of events from 1993 bombing of W...

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...ne, Catherine, forced to combat heresy which was seeking to annihilate the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Cath... ...man when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has died!” Catherine had, in the highest degree, the s... ...d, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw with great satisfaction, Cath... ...g constitution of the provinces. There lay the remedy for the evils of the monarchy; thence should have come the voting on taxes, the regulation of th... ... them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence to the Conn... ...uise, like Philip the Second and the Duke of Alba, knew where and when the monarchy was threatened, and how close the alliance ought to be between Cat... ...he wine of Charlemagne’s cup, believing too blindly in the strength of his monarchy, and confident of sharing the world with Suleiman, did not at firs... ... aim of the Guises disguised under a pretext of defending religion and the monarchy, felt itself no longer able to make head against them. Though he w... ...whom one of her enemies said at her death, “It is more than a queen, it is monarchy itself that has died,”— this woman could not exist without the int...

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...se articles of dress very closely. Still, in every country, aristoc- racy, monarchy, or democracy, there are privileged classes, and in all companies ...

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...h, the wars being over, the armies disbanded, and the royal family and the monarchy being re- stored, had flocked to London to settle in business, or ... ...e. The Church of England was restored, indeed, with the restoration of the monarchy, about four years before; but the ministers and preachers of the P...

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...they marched from Scotland to Lon- don, and from a republic at once into a monarchy. Since that period, Brock had been always with the army, he had ha...