The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... tion that in every society of men there is a determinate body ( whether consisting of one individual , or a few or many individuals ) whose commands the rest of the community obey . This sovereign body is what in more popular phrase is ...
... tion that in every society of men there is a determinate body ( whether consisting of one individual , or a few or many individuals ) whose commands the rest of the community obey . This sovereign body is what in more popular phrase is ...
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... tion , such as it never can be made under any representative system . The Government of Rome . - During the whole period of freedom the government of Rome was , in theory at least , municipal self - government . Each citizen had 1 ...
... tion , such as it never can be made under any representative system . The Government of Rome . - During the whole period of freedom the government of Rome was , in theory at least , municipal self - government . Each citizen had 1 ...
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... tion that everything belonged primarily to the king.1 The king's ministers had begun to act as a united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed ...
... tion that everything belonged primarily to the king.1 The king's ministers had begun to act as a united body ; but Norman Conquest imposed on England the already highly even after the Revolution the union was still feeble and developed ...
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... tion as a demand for a cheap supply of food . Since that time , the principle that the state should leave men to make what bargains they please , without attempting to encourage any particular industry or to favour any special class ...
... tion as a demand for a cheap supply of food . Since that time , the principle that the state should leave men to make what bargains they please , without attempting to encourage any particular industry or to favour any special class ...
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... tion at the gymnasium of Pforta became a student of law in the university of Leipsic . During a casual visit to During a casual visit to Deventer in his eighteenth year , he became acquainted with Gronovius ; and this circumstance ...
... tion at the gymnasium of Pforta became a student of law in the university of Leipsic . During a casual visit to During a casual visit to Deventer in his eighteenth year , he became acquainted with Gronovius ; and this circumstance ...
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