Henry F. Brownson
Published: 2018-01-17
Total Pages: 620
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Excerpt from The Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Vol. 12: Collected and Arranged A republican government does not necessarily stand Op posed to a constitutional, monarchy. That government, ac cording to the proper sense of the word, is republican, that is instituted and administered for the common weal, the public good, in which power is a_ trust to be exercised for the common good Of t e governed, and not a private inde feasible right of the governors, to be exercised for their private benefit. Man is social by nature, is born, as Cicero says, in society, and stays there. He cannot subsist without society; society cannot subsist without government; and a government instituted and administered for the'common interests Of society, is a republic, although not necessarily as democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.