Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico... The North American Review - Seite 422herausgegeben von - 1844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 Seiten
...the conditional and frangible contracts of the marketplace. The civil state should not be regarded as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee 'to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties' (1998:... | |
| David George Ritchie - 2003 - 310 Seiten
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
| David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 452 Seiten
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco. or some other such low concern. to be taken up for a little temporary interest. and to be dissolved by the... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 Seiten
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered...in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco ... to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.... | |
| Harold Joseph Berman - 2009 - 548 Seiten
...United States, vol. 1, 3rd ed. (Durham, NC, 1858), p. 1o5 n. 1. 18. "Society is indeed a contract. . . . [B]ut the state ought not to be considered as nothing...in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco ... to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. ... It is a partnership in all science, a partnership... | |
| Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 Seiten
...provide the lineaments of the state, or provide the model for all social relations. The state, he wrote, 'ought not to be considered as nothing better than...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern' (Reflections, 194), but is based on a civic culture grounded in tradition (customs... | |
| Saree Makdisi - 2007 - 422 Seiten
...quoting here at length: Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
| Rogers M. Smith - 2003 - 252 Seiten
...give way to modern commercial republicanism, Edmund Burke famously argued that a political community "ought not to be considered as nothing better than...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern ... it is not a partnership in things subservient... | |
| Youssef M. Choueiri - 2003 - 254 Seiten
...theoretical beliefs are summed up in a quotation from Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France: 'But the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and... | |
| 466 Seiten
...Praeger, 1961). Mercenaries, Militias, Guerrillas, and the Defense of Minimal States and Free Societies partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy... | |
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