His mistrust in the people is perfectly stated in his words were men are wretched creates who would not keep their word but can be control. ... "Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself feared. The bond of love is one which men, wretched creatures they are, break when it is to their advantage to do so; but fear is strengthened by a dread of punishment which is always effective. " Above all, the one emotion that should overrule them is fear because is not only a way of power but of affection. ... Men are so simple, and so much creatures ...

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Deep in the minds of the colonists was one small thing that would unite them all, an ingrained love for freedom and equality. ... Your own property meant your own food, and own money and made you "independent from all other men, including kings and lords... "(17) Furthermore there was a another "principle forming the Americans mind that all men are created equal"(76) That declaration meant to the Americans that they should have the same independence as a nation as what others enjoyed and only have to pay taxes they levied therefore on themselves for their own benefit not the benefit of some fa...

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Above all, he commits himself to politically sound, whole-hearted efforts. ... Plato advocates a true aristocracy, or rule by the best philosopher-kings, and Machiavelli essentially advocates rule by the best man--"best" as evidenced by who can get to the top. ... One of Machiavelli's ultimate statements thus is that men and women are inherently political animals, not necessarily adhering to standards of good and evil, right and wrong, but apparently doing so because it is convenient. ... What we get from all of this is that, to Lorenzo, in order to assert his masculinity and se! ... ...

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Pure democracy, however, as the government of the state by which all the people in every detail, is not, as Rousseau says, a possible human institution. All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). Of the law, which set up among men this reign of mutual justice, the General Will is the source. ... Rousseau sees clearly that it is impossible to place any limits upon the power of the State; when the peo...

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Pure democracy, however, as the government of the state by which all the people in every detail, is not, as Rousseau says, a possible human institution. All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... Humbly speaking, in default of natural sanctions, the laws of justice are ineffective among men" (Book II: VI). Of the law, which set up among men this reign of mutual justice, the General Will is the source. ... Rousseau sees clearly that it is impossible to place any limits upon the power of the State; when the peo...

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