 In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement....  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 211by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 232 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement....What the particular nature of that agreement was, is collecled from the form into, which the particular fociety has been caft. Any other is not their covenant.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal ficYions by common agreement. What the particular nature of...covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compacl or agreement which gives its corporate form and capacity to a ftate, they are no longer a people... | |
 | History - 1795 - 688 pages
...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fanions by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement was, is coltecled from the Form into which the particular fociety has been cart. Any other is not their covenant.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement....the form into which the particular fociety has been call. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compact or agreement... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement....collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | France - 1811 - 662 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common...particular fociety has been caft. Any other is not tbeir covenant. When men, there- Mr.Burke. fore, break up the original compact or agreement which gives... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement....collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common...collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; society has been cast. Any other is not (Aetr covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - Great Britain - 1838 - 324 pages
...no collective capacity. The idea of a people, is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common...collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. " When men therefore break up the original... | |
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