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Principles Of Legislation by Charles Michell is a sweeping political treatise arguing for a durable, principle-based framework for governing. Michell critiques both the French Revolution’s foundational doctrines and contemporary reformist tendencies, urging instead a balanced constitution in which sovereignty is shared among a monarch, an aristocratic senate, and a broadly but not universally enfranchised people. The work probes the nature of rights, the duties attached to public offices, and the dangers of letting mere majorities override stable institutions. It discusses taxation, the effects of luxury, agrarian policy, primogeniture, the defense of the realm via a standing army, and the moral foundations required for national prosperity. The author asserts that liberty arises from wisely designed institutions, educated citizenship, and virtuous conduct, rather than abstract rights detached from social realities. It remains a comprehensive inquiry into how best to preserve order, virtue, and freedom in a modern state.
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