The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And, indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided... Southern Quarterly Review - الصفحة 50المحررون: - 1854عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Aurelian Crăiuțu - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure...these natural aristoi into the offices of government?" (Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813, quoted in Peterson 1975, 533-35). On the principle of distinction... | |
| Michał Rozbicki - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...to power. "May we not even say," he wrote, "that that form of government is the best which provides most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?" He even suggested that Virginians were more independent in their judgments than New Englanders, so... | |
| John Adams - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure...these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made... | |
| Patriot Hall - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure...these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made... | |
| Nasser Behnegar - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 235
...(NRH, 1). And they did not deny that some individuals are better judges of what is politically good and that "that form of government is best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of [the] natural aristoi into offices of good government" (Jefferson, "Letter to John Adams," October... | |
| Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi in the office's of government? . . . Two Federalism Selections in this chapter concern federalism,... | |
| John Carson - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...the trusts, and government of society. . . . May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure...these natural aristoi into the offices of government? —Thomas Jefferson (1813) So THOMAS JEFFERSON wrote his old friend and rival John Adams on October... | |
| John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 916
...interests of society" (Jefferson 1984, 32). "That form of government is the best," he fully believed, "which provides the most effectually for a pure selection...these natural aristoi into the offices of government" (Cappon 1959, 390). Neither More nor Harrington could have said it any better. REFERENCES BADIAN, E.... | |
| Robert Devigne - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 319
...the trusts, the government of society. . . . May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure...selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?"45 Rousseau asserted in the Social Contract that an "elected aristocracy" was the best... | |
| Colley Cibber - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 289
...the trusts, and government of society . . . May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the office of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision... | |
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