Essays On Government
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Locke and our own forefathers, on the contrary, start with certain natural legal rights possessed by the citizens as individuals, limit the authority of the sovereign power ac- cordingl3% and maintain that any attempt on its part to violate these rights is itself unlaw- ful. But the Germans, in trying to reconcile the unlimited power of the state with the in- violable rights of the citizens, only puzzle them- selves afresh with the old conundrum, — what would happen if an irresistible force sho...uld meet an immovable obstacle?
I have said that these peculiarities of thought can be explained to some extent by the condi- Digitized by VjOOQIC THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL COMPACT, 173 tion of the German race. The people had been so long unaccustomed to taking any part in the discussion of political affairs, and were so un- used to transacting public business on juries, etc., that, with a type of mind naturally meta- physical, they very easily fell into an exces- sively abstract and theoretical, as distinguished from a positive and practical, way of looking at political problems.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Locke and our own forefathers, on the contrary, start with certain natural legal rights possessed by the citizens as individuals, limit the authority of the sovereign power ac- cordingl3% and maintain that any attempt on its part to violate these rights is itself unlaw- ful. But the Germans, in trying to reconcile the unlimited power of the state with the in- violable rights of the citizens, only puzzle them- selves afresh with the old conundrum, — what would happen if an irresistible force sho...uld meet an immovable obstacle?
I have said that these peculiarities of thought can be explained to some extent by the condi- Digitized by VjOOQIC THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL COMPACT, 173 tion of the German race. The people had been so long unaccustomed to taking any part in the discussion of political affairs, and were so un- used to transacting public business on juries, etc., that, with a type of mind naturally meta- physical, they very easily fell into an exces- sively abstract and theoretical, as distinguished from a positive and practical, way of looking at political problems.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by A Lawrence Abbott Lawrence Lowell to read onlineMoreLess
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