Essays by "The Free Republican" 1784-1786【電子書籍】[ Benjamin Lincoln, Jr. ]

＜p＞This is the first modern publication of ten essays published in the popular Boston newspaper ＜em＞The Independent Chronicle＜/em＞, a significant intellectual event in Massachusetts politics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The essays deal primarily with the problem of mixed government in a republic. Lincoln writes, “Two distinct and different orders of men seems incident to every society,” and these “two contending interests,” fed by a “spirit of jealousy and distrust,” would always be in dispute with one another. “Whether the parties to the contests style themselves the Rich and the Poor, the Great and the Small, the High and the Low, the Elders and People, Patricians and Plebeians, Nobility and Commons, still,” the Free Republican writes, “the source and effects of the dispute are the same.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lincoln saw this division of men directly linked with property: “Power, or the ability of controlling others, ever has been, and ever will be attached to property. . . . The glare of wealth, and the splendor of i．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る