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Going to be on a Joseph de Maistre streak for the next 2-3 weeks

Namnet som jag är

Varje grundlag i princip gudomlig. TIdigare: påpekande om att det verkligt viktiga inte kan skrivas ned.

Lagens styrka i invers proportion till dess längd

Omöjligheten att planera en grundlag

Tantum series juncturaque pollet

Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris 

So great is the power of linkage and order That even the mundane becomes important (Diderot)

The most important institutions should be the result not of deliberation, but of circumstances

The unalterable consequence, that no institution, truly great real, could be founded on a written law, since the men themselves, the successive instruments of its establishment, know not what it will become, and since insensible growth is the true sign of durability, in every possible order of things.

Law is not properly law, nor does it possess the true sanction of law, unless it eminates from a superior will

"every law, tending directly to favour population, without regard to other considerations, is bad."

Människan ond, auktoritet nödvändigt. Varje nation följer sin egen väg. Inget universalt statsskick.

Traditionalist - guds vilja. Människan naturligt ond. Politisk stabilitet kopplas till ledarens "unquestionable position"

Evolutionist - generationers erfarenhet. Historisk optimism.