Bad govt represents bad people?
joshua geller
joshua at cae.retix.com
Wed Aug 31 11:28:03 PDT 1994
> Actually several solutions were discovered long ago. After Athenian
> democracy self destructed, the various warring parties found that they
> could only have peace if they disowned omnipotent government. They put
> together a peace agreement that in part proclaimed limits to government,
> in part acknowledged inherent limits to what was proper for governments
> to do and in part guaranteed that the government would not go beyond what
> it was proper for government to do, that the majority could not do
> as it pleased with the minority, that not any act of power was a law,
> that law was not merely whatever the government willed.
specifically what period are you referring to here?
josh
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