Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2831827Full view - About this book
| Robert Roswell Palmer - History - 1959 - 552 pages
...something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of government." And he added, like Rousseau: "The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, not their crime." The error to which the people were liable was in failing to see that the trouble lay with the King.... | |
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