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Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and of Other Human Institutions (1814). Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present . Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 134-145.
- Joseph de Maistre
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It has been often supposed to be an excellent piece of pleasantry upon Frenchmen, to ask them in what book the Salic law was written? But Jérôme Bignon answered, very apropos, and probably without knowing the full truth of what he said, that it was written in the hearts of Frenchmen. Let us suppose, in effect, that a law of so much importance exist...
The compilers of the Roman laws have placed, unpretendingly, in the first chapter of their collection, a very remarkable fragment of Greek jurisprudence. Among the laws which govern us, says this passage, some are written, others are unwritten. Nothing can be more simple or profound. Is there any Turkish law which expressly permits the sovereign to...
Ask Roman history what was precisely the power of the Senate: she is silent, at least as to the exact limits of that power. We see, indeed, in general, that the power of the people and that of the Senate mutually balanced each other, and that the opposition was unceasing; we observe also that patriotism or weariness, weakness or violence, terminate...
At the sitting of the House of Commons, June 26, 1807, a lord cited the authority of a great statesman to show that the King had no right to dissolve Parliament during the session; but this opinion was contradicted: Where is the law? Attempt to make a law, and to fix exclusively by writing the case where the King has this right, and you will produc...
Towards the end of the last century, a great outcry was made against a Minister, who had conceived the project of introducing this same English Constitution (or what was called by that name) into a kingdom which was convulsed, and which demanded a constitution of some kind, with a sort of frenzy. He was wrong, if you please, so far at least as one ...
The more we examine the influence of human agency in the formation of political constitutions, the greater will be our conviction that it enters there only in a manner infinitely subordinate, or as a simple instrument; and I do not believe there remains the least doubt of the incontestable truth of the following propositions:— 1. That the fundament...
If there is any thing well known, it is the comparison of Cicero, on the subject of the Epicurean system, which proposed to build a world with atoms falling at random in space. I would rather believe, says the great Orator, that letters, thrown into the air, would, on falling, arrange themselves in such a manner as to form a poem. A thousand voices...
Let us now consider some one political constitution, that of England, for example. It certainly was not made à priori. Her Statesman never assembled themselves together and said, Let us create three powers, balancing them in such a manner, etc.No one of them ever thought of such a thing. The Constitution is the work of circumstances, and the number...
Now since these elements, thus projected into space, have arranged themselves in such beautiful order, without a single man, among the innumerable multitude who have acted in this vast field, having ever known what he had done relatively to the whole, nor foreseen what would happen, it follows, inevitably, that these elements were guided in their f...
It is very remarkable, that God, having condescended to speakto men, has Himself unfolded these truths, in the two revelations which,through His abounding goodness He has given to us. A very able man,who has made, in my opinion, a kind of epoch in our age, by reasonof the desperate conflict which he exhibits in his writings, betweenthe most frightf...
There follows the I 8 I 4 Preface to his Essay on the Generative Prin ciple of Political Constitutions (I8o8-18o9), from the translation pub lished in Boston in I 84 7, pp. vii-xxii. Preface PoLITICAL sciENCE, which is, perhaps, the most thorny of all sci ences, by reason of the difficulty perpetually arising, of discerning
- John B. Halsted
- 1969
The real English constitution is the public spirit, admirable, unique, infallible, and above praise, which leads, conserves, and protects all—what is written
Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions Notice by the Translator Preface Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions 7 11 29 31 33 43 CONTENTS Founded by Margaret Thatcher in 2009 as the intellectual hub of European Conservativism, New Direction has established academic networks across Europe and research
In his short book Essai sur le Principe Générateur des Constitutions Politiques et des Autres Institutions Humaines ("Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions", 1809), Maistre argued that constitutions are not the product of human reason, but rather come from God, who slowly brings ...
