The Power and Stability of Federative Governments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Closely allied to the difficulties of the science are those impediments to fair and candid investigation which exist with different degrees of strength in the mind of the enquirer. The voice of truth may indeed be heard, but is far too feeble to be obeyed, unless where reason has been enabled to establish around her a calm and perfect silence by stilling the angry and unruly feelings of the human breast. The caution against any attempt to form a com prehensive theory, so just in reference to all sub jects which furnish but precarious grounds for reasoning, applies with peculiar force to political discussion, which involves too many questions of interest and prejudice not to provoke at every step a ready appeal from the judgment to the passions.

The boundaries, then, of this subject are vague and undefined, but comprise in their extent a wide field beaten and explored, and familiar to our knowledge. There are principles of increase and decay, of weakness and energy, common to all governments whatever. Others again, which de velope themselves more fully and powerfully in constitutions of a peculiar kind. The danger, for instance, of an undue assumption of power by the executive exists more or less in all governments; while in republics more particularly we should look for an excess of faction and party spirit.

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