Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments

Benjamin Constant

ISBN 10: 0865973962 / ISBN 13: 9780865973961

Published by Liberty Fund Inc, 2003

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Editor(s): Hofmann, Etienne. Num Pages: 579 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1168. . 2003. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865973962
• ISBN 13: 9780865973961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, Constant explores the subjects of law, sovereignty, and representation; power and accountability; government, property, and taxation; wealth and poverty; war, peace, and the maintenance of public order; and freedom, of the individual, of the press, and of religion.

Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), born in Switzerland, became one of France’s leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician.

About the Author

Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was a French-Swiss po-litical writer and novelist. He combined a lively political career with a fertile literary output, while entertaining a series of liaisons with some of Frances most prominent women. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a cham-pion of liberalism and the author of The History of Reli-gion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of Adolphe (1816).