The Abuse of Standing Parliaments, and the Great Advantage of Frequent Elections
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Excerpt from The Abuse of Standing Parliaments, and the Great Advantage of Frequent Elections: In a Letter to a Noble Lord When I reflect on the constitution of the greatest commonwealths of antiquity, I am not astonished at their declensions. They received the feeds of their decay in their birth, and the strength and power which they displayed for a while, was rather the effect of many concurring circumstances not obvious to human foresight, than the natural consequence of their frame. The true foundation of government was usually mistaken, and though the superstructures were finely contrived, and admirably executed, yet they were at the best like houses built upon sand. When governments have received an unhappy biass in their original, like individuals who have quitted the right way, every step in their future progress is a greater deviation from the right. It is a maxim of Machiavel that governments should as often as possible be brought back to their first principles; and though the general practice of statesmen, disproves this maxim, I have not known it overturned by argument: It is certainly just when applied to well constituted governments, and is in one sense applicable to the worst, that their defects are generally fewest in the beginning; therefore when they revert to their first principles, I may safely say, that they come nearer to perfection. Two instances occur which seem to confirm the preceding observations. 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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