Township Organization for Illinois
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Excerpt from Township Organization for Illinois: Or Local Self-Government for the People Man is an individual and a social being. His individuality requires freedom from unnecessary restraint for its full development; his social instinct necessitates society. Society for its proper organization and healthful existence needs government to protect rights, and enforce the performance of duties. Man, then, desires, or should desire, the greatest freedom consistent with public order. Governments, generally speaking, are of three kinds, as regards the source of the ruling power: First- Monarchy, or the Rule of One. Second- Oligarchy, or the Rule of the Few. Third- Democracy, or the Rule of the People. Each of these three kinds of government may be absolute or limited, according to the restrictions of constitutions and the combination with other kinds, or the contrary; and each may be centralized or localized, according to the mode of its action. Absolute and centralized governments have generally proved themselves brilliant and ruinous in able hands, and feeble and insufficient, when the weak held the reins; limited and local governments have been the characteristic of such countries as England and Switzerland, that, fast-anchored in the stormy sea of present European troubles, bear up the cheering signal lights of Liberty and Law. The principle of Monarchical governments, according to Montesquieu, is Honor; that of an Oligarchy, is Moderation; that of a Democracy, Virtue. The last demands the most of the people. "Freedom," says Josiah Quincy, "has no perfect security but Virtue; Virtue none but Knowledge." Knowledge, Virtue, Freedom, Material Prosperity, should be both the means and end of a good Democratic government. And such is ours, by the acts of our fathers and the consent of their posterity. Our fathers acted with equal wisdom, in declaring themselves against Centralization, and in favor of the diffusion of political power among the States. Posterity, also, sustains this decision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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