 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. ging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain...radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and whose expense it is supported ; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Sir Robert Birley - History - 1924 - 64 pages
...by the power of Parliament.'4 Paine in The Rights of Man states the same principle, ' The Government is not, and from its nature cannot be the property...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported.' 5 This is the Utilitarian theory, but there is a great difference between... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - English prose literature - 1927 - 544 pages
...are bad, and that a general Revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is Government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 1995 - 944 pages
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Ronnie D. Lipschutz - History - 1995 - 266 pages
...social contract conception as simply liberal/American ideology. If one agrees with Thomas Paine that "What is government more than the management of the affairs of a nation? It is not," and further that sovereignty rests with the nation, which has always the right "to abolish any form of... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - Human rights - 1997 - 560 pages
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of Governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expence it is supported; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community at whose expense it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 300 pages
...creatures of imagination; and a thousand such may be contrived, as well as three. Rights of Man, I, 1791 What is government more than the management of the affairs of a Nation? Rights of Man, I, 1791 Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society... | |
 | Andreas Hess - Law - 2003 - 504 pages
...are bad, and that a general revolution in the principle and construction of governments is necessary. What is government more than the management of the...particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,... | |
 | John Keane - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 670 pages
...representative government requires recognition of the right of each nation to determine its own destiny. "What is government more than the management of the affairs of a nation?" he asked. "It is not," he answered. "Sovereignty as a matter of right, appertains to the nation only... | |
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... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty as a matter of right appertains to the nation only, and not to any individual; and a nation has at all times... 
