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Reed Fagan
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Gov't of the Democracy in America.
"[Infrequent elections mean] the state is exposed to the perils of a revolution, [frequent elections mean,] to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the government, the latter prevents any steady and consistent policy. The Americans have preferred the second of these evils to the first.... Hence their legislation is strangely mutable."-p 206
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"[Infrequent elections mean] the state is exposed to the perils of a revolution, [frequent elections mean,] to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the government, the latter prevents any steady and consistent policy. The Americans have preferred the second of these evils to the first.... Hence their legislation is strangely mutable."-p 206
Reed Fagan
is on page 201 of 920
Government of the Democracy in America.
"It is...difficult for the lower classes to discern the best means of attaining [what they] desire. [M]uch acquired knowledge [is] requisite to form a just estimate...of a single individual....The ppl have neither the time nor the means for an invstgtn of this kind. Their conclsns are hastily formed.... Hence it often happens that mountebanks...are able to please the ppl...."
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"It is...difficult for the lower classes to discern the best means of attaining [what they] desire. [M]uch acquired knowledge [is] requisite to form a just estimate...of a single individual....The ppl have neither the time nor the means for an invstgtn of this kind. Their conclsns are hastily formed.... Hence it often happens that mountebanks...are able to please the ppl...."
Reed Fagan
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Political Associations in the US.
T thinks political associations (I think as granted by the freedom of assembly) are potentially threatening in that they can freely challenge the laws of the elected officials in Congress and even encourage the breaking of laws they dislike, but ultimately in a democracy they are not fatal to the government b/c they eventually inspire better representation or voting in new leaders.
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T thinks political associations (I think as granted by the freedom of assembly) are potentially threatening in that they can freely challenge the laws of the elected officials in Congress and even encourage the breaking of laws they dislike, but ultimately in a democracy they are not fatal to the government b/c they eventually inspire better representation or voting in new leaders.
