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The authority of gover, even such as I am willing to submit to—for I will cheerfully obey tho who know and do better than I, and in many things even tho who her know nor do so well—is still an impure oo be strictly just, it must have the san and t of the governed. It have no pure right over my person and property but what I cede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the e philosopher was wi enough tard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in gover?
Is it not possible to take a step further towards reizing and anizing the rights of man?There will never be a really free and enlighteate until the State es the individual as a higher and indepe power, from which all its own power and authority are derived,and treats him accly.I plea mylf with imagining a State at least which afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it insistent with its own repo if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfed glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere en.
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The authority of gover, even such as I am willing to submit to—for I will cheerfully obey tho who know and do better than I, and in many things even tho who her know nor do so well—is still an impure oo be strictly just, it must have the san and t of the governed. It have no pure right over my person and property but what I cede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the e philosopher was wi enough tard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in gover?