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| federaist 4 is basically usimg the example of britain amd its three or four parts to demonstrate need for union. also covers economic reasons for doing so.
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| - Note Loc. 371 | Added on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 04:10 PM
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| interesting foreshadowing...
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| And here let us not forget how much more easy it is to receive foreign fleets into our ports, and foreign armies into our country, than it is to persuade or compel them to depart.
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| - Note Loc. 393 | Added on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 04:16 PM
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| definitely some eerie civil war foreshadowing concerning domestic and foreign conflicts and relationships among confederacies
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| not just talking about disunion and multiple confederacies. specifically discussing interstate conflicts that will occur even in a union
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| - Note Loc. 124 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 01:34 AM
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| article argues that arab spring is not sngular phenomena but is happening for different reasons and with different driving forces in each country. also addresses that each country is facing different challenges. america and american committment to ara spring originates in tone se by obaa in cairo speech. but historical and country specific understanding is necessary to making the right moves/decisions
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| - Note Loc. 484 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 01:49 AM
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| sources of conflict: territory. hamilton goes on to give examples from the colonies themselves and doesnt leave the argument abstract
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| - Note Loc. 520 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 01:54 AM
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| additional reason for conflict beyond territory is economic/commercial
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| - Note Loc. 538 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 01:58 AM
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| third source of conflict: government budget
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| and, in addition to the rest, the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them, and interfere with the supply of immediate wants.
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| legal conflicts, stemming from inconsistent contract or other law
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| essentially what he is arguing is that the geography and progress of war are such that confederacies will result in something like europe, a bunch of monarchies and wars and continual conflicts
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| - Note Loc. 618 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:33 PM
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| how were the armies of greece organized?
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| this would require more research for me to be convinced
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| - Note Loc. 619 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:36 PM
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| what does he mean by internal invasions?
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| why? because they can spend their time on other stuff?
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| it would be interesting to examine some of his claims in the context of the civil war
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| - Note Loc. 621 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:40 PM
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| also would be interestinng to examine his claims in light of modern wilsonian external conflicts
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| - Note Loc. 629 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 12:42 PM
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| like, uh, terrorism
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| The perpetual menacings of danger oblige the government to be always prepared to repel it; its armies must be numerous enough for instant defense. The continual necessity for their services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen. The military state becomes elevated above the civil. The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subjected to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors, but as their superiors. The transition from this disposition to that of considering them masters, is neither remote nor difficult; but it is very difficult to prevail upon a people under such impressions, to make a bold or effectual resistance to usurpations supported by the military power.
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| This objection will be fully examined in its proper place, and it will be shown that the only natural precaution which could have been taken on this subject has been taken; and a much better one than
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| So far are the suggestions of Montesquieu from standing in opposition to a general Union of the States, that he explicitly treats of a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC as the expedient for extending the sphere of popular government, and reconciling the advantages of monarchy with those of republicanism. ``It is very probable,'' (says he1) ``that mankind would have been obliged at length to live constantly under the government of a single person, had they not contrived a kind of constitution that has all the internal advantages of a republican, together with the external force of a monarchical government. I mean a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC.
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| The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
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| The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution.
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| A unity of commercial, as well as political, interests, can only result from a unity of government.
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| typo?
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| Foreign Affairs May-June 2011 (Foreign Affairs)
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| For a revolution to succeed, a number of factors have to come together. The government must appear so irremediably unjust or inept that it is widely viewed as a threat to the country's future; elites (especially in the military) must be alienated from the state and no longer willing to defend it; a broad-based section of the population, spanning ethnic and religious groups and socioeconomic classes, must mobilize; and international powers must either refuse to step in to defend the government or constrain it from using maximum force to defend itself. Revolutions rarely triumph because these conditions rarely coincide. This is especially the case in traditional monarchies and one-party states, whose leaders often manage to maintain popular support by making appeals to respect for royal tradition or nationalism.
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| - Note Loc. 146 | Added on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 11:59 PM
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| north korea anyone?
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| Unemployment among the educated, moreover, has been even worse: in Egypt, college graduates are ten times as likely to have no job as those with only an elementary school education.
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| if circumstances had been different, maybe the military would have killed the arab spring before it could even start... kind of a depressing thought
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| if circumstances had been different, maybe the military would have killed the arab spring before it could even start... kind of a depressing thought. it wasnt the overwhelming power of the people alone, but confoumding factors that weakened leaders.
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| The king was in his countinghouse. Nobody.
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| - Highlight Loc. 1284-89 | Added on Thursday, June 16, 2011, 11:55 AM
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| Where was the chap I saw in that picture somewhere? Ah yes, in the dead sea floating on his back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn't sink if you tried: so thick with salt. Because the weight of the water, no, the weight of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the what? Or is it the volume is equal to the weight? It's a law something like that. Vance in High school cracking his fingerjoints, teaching. The college curriculum. Cracking curriculum. What is weight really when you say the weight? Thirtytwo feet per second per second. Law of falling bodies: per second per second. They all fall to the ground. The earth. It's the force of gravity of the earth is the weight.
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| It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.
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| kind of a ridiculous attitude... he has no real reason to immediately agree with her and all the time be skeptical of the evidnce and all other accounts. poirot is certainly not a bayesian... he doesnt need information in the first place!!!
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| And he experienced in this moment the strongest doubts he had yet felt of the course to which he had committed himself.
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| yes, dont bother with evidence... commit to a course, commit to a hypothesis, regardless of the evidence. great detective... eye roll
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| this is twisted logic... creating a new narrative to suit ignored circumstances... like the reverse of what it shoul be
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| yes yes dont bother with evidence. the feeling of poirot has rubbd off into a feeling of meredith...
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| ‘Reflect a minute. If you were to pass a fishmonger’s and saw twelve fish laid out on his slab, you would think they were all real fish, would you not? But one of them might be stuffed fish.’ Miss Williams replied with spirit: ‘Most unlikely and anyway—’ ‘Ah, unlikely, yes, but not impossible—because a friend of mine once took down a stuffed fish (it was his trade, you comprehend) to compare it with the real thing! And if you saw a bowl of innias in a drawing-room in December you would say that they were false—but they might be real ones flown home from Baghdad.’ ‘What is the meaning of all this nonsense?’ demanded Miss Williams. ‘It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees…’
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| ‘There is always a danger of accepting facts as proved which are really nothing of the kind.
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| Brazil, China, India, and other fast-emerging states have a different set of cultural, political, and economic experiences, and they see the world through their anti-imperial and anticolonial pasts.
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| The struggle over international order today is not about fundamental principles. China and other emerging great powers do not want to contest the basic rules and principles of the liberal international order; they wish to gain more authority and leadership within it.Indeed,
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| update the liberal order for a new era, ensuring that it continues to provide the benefits of security and prosperity that it has provided since the middle of the twentieth century.
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| capitais ad constitutionalism work well becausethey account for human nature and huma greed. communism does not. but that capability leads to homeless peple and goldman sachs coexisting...
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| capitais ad constitutionalism work well becausethey account for human nature and huma greed. communism does not. but that capability leads to homeless peple and goldman sachs coexisting...
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| - Highlight Loc. 1359-61 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 11:45 AM
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| China and the other emerging powers do not face simply an American-led order or a Western system. They face a broader international order that is the product of centuries of struggle and innovation. It is highly developed, expansive, integrated, institutionalized, and deeply rooted in the societies and economies of both advanced capitalist states and developing states.
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| The "problems of Hobbes," that is, anarchy and power insecurities, have had to be solved in order to take advantage of the "opportunities of Locke," that is, the construction of open and rule-based relations.
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| peace of westphalia establishes state relation framework
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| peace of westphalia establishes state relation framework from nothing
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| liberal world order orders these relations
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| The original principles of the Westphalian system -- sovereignty, territorial integrity, and nonintervention -- reflected an emerging consensus that states were the rightful political units for the establishment of legitimate rule.
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| Under the banners of sovereignty and self-determination, political movements for decolonization and independence were set in motion in the non-Western developing world, coming to fruition in the decades after World War II.
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| nuclear test ban treaty... and that example in particular is interesting because it is very illustrative of the libera world order counttries, russia arguably included, bnning tests, but emerguing powers like china and india testing anywa... throwing out the old rulebook
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| But in the interwar period of closed economic systems and imperial blocs, this experiment in liberal order collapsed.
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| In the decades since the end of the Cold War, notions of "the responsibility to protect" have given the international community legal rights and obligations to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states.
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| contrast with chinas position on noninterference policy wrt other countries internal affairs...
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| But now, as this hegemonic organization of the liberal international order starts to change, the hierarchical aspects are fading while the liberal aspects persist. So even as China and other rising states try to contest U.S. leadership -- and there is indeed a struggle over the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of the leading states within the system -- the deeper international order remains intact.
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| liberal world order has two parts... hegemony and liberal aspects. he is arguing tha hegemonic aspects are declining, not the entire liberal world order
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| China is already deeply enmeshed in the global trading system, with a remarkable 40 percent of its GNP composed of exports -- 25 percent of which go to the United States.
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| China will feel pressures to establish these same institutional preconditions if it wants the benefits of a global
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| The UN Security Council, the G-20, the governing bodies of the Bretton Woods institutions -- these are all stages on which rising non-Western states can acquire great-power authority and exercise global leadership.
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| Meanwhile, there is no competing global organizing logic to liberal internationalism. An alternative, illiberal order -- a "Beijing model" -- would presumably be organized around exclusive blocs, spheres of influence, and mercantilist networks. It would be less open and rule-based, and it would be dominated by an array of state-to-state ties. But on a global scale, such a system would not advance the interests of any of the major states, including China. The Beijing model only works when one or a few states opportunistically exploit an open system of markets. But if everyone does, it is no longer an open system but a fragmented, mercantilist, and protectionist complex -- and everyone suffers.
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| China would be successful enough with its authoritarian model of development to resist the pressures to liberalize and democratize. But if the rest of the world does not gravitate toward this model, China will find itself subjected to pressure to play by the rules.
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| In the background, meanwhile, democracy and the rule of law are still the hallmarks of modernity and the global standard for legitimate governance. Although it is true that the spread of democracy has stalled in recent years and that authoritarian China has performed well in the recent economic crisis, there is little evidence that authoritarian states can become truly advanced societies without moving in a liberal democratic direction. The legitimacy of one-party rule within China rests more on the state's ability to deliver economic growth and full employment than on authoritarian -- let alone communist -- political principles.
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| "China cannot succeed in its goal of becoming a modern developed society until it can take the leap and allow the Chinese people to choose their own rulers."
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| why not try to move in that direction but in a controlled way? systematically introduce reforms i mea. i dnt know. mabe they are doing that already.
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| and no competing political ideals even lurk on the sidelines.
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| is this right? i mean acceptable right. democracy is easily abused. the reublic system is wha .adethe united states so dominant. it wasnt just democracy. maybe too many failures of democracies will convince people it doesnt work. andmaybeit doesnt! the real push sould be toward an acceptable working republican system... not a blind support of democracy in its plainest form...
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| The Atlantic Charter, announced by Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in 1941, and the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944 were early efforts to articulate a vision of economic openness and social stability. The United States would do well to try to reach back and rearticulate this view. The world is not rejecting openness and markets; it is asking for a more expansive notion of stability and economic security.
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| article about advantages of an aggressive china... i cant exactly remember what it covered or what it cited as positive beavior...
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| - Highlight Loc. 1485-87 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 12:58 PM
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| The country operated within layers of regional and global economic, political, and security institutions and constructed new ones -- thereby making itself more predictable and approachable and reducing the incentives for other states to undermine it by building countervailing coalitions.
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| - Note Loc. 1487 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 01:00 PM
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| and september 11th was perfect opportunity to renew or revisit this world order and make ourselves predictable and approachable and create an international coalition. but.........
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| - Highlight Loc. 1491-93 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 01:01 PM
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| rising great powers are threatened less by mass armies marching across borders than by transnational dangers, such as terrorism, climate change, and pandemic disease. What goes on in one country -- radicalism, carbon emissions, or public health failures -- can increasingly harm another country.
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| - Note Loc. 1499 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 01:02 PM
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| i.e. decentralization or dehegemonization
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| - Highlight Loc. 1501-4 | Added on Sunday, June 19, 2011, 01:03 PM
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| Markets and democracy have spread. Societies outside the West are trading and growing. The United States has more alliance partners today than it did during the Cold War. Rival hegemonic states with revisionist and illiberal agendas have been pushed off the global stage. It is difficult to read these world-historical developments as a story of American decline and liberal unraveling.
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| which is why states will continue to look to Washington for security and partnership.
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| Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie)
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| - Highlight Loc. 900-902 | Added on Monday, June 20, 2011, 06:47 AM
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| “See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. But in this case I would welcome a little scientific assistance. This compartment is full of clues, but can I be sure that those clues are really what they seem to be?”
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| The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much the less to be drawn from the pockets of the people. If the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for—and each of them, as to the principal departments, coextensive with that which would be necessary for a government of the whole. The entire separation of the States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is a project too extravagant and too replete with danger to have many advocates.
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| Civil power, properly organized and exerted, is capable of diffusing its force to a very great extent; and can, in a manner, reproduce itself in every part of a great empire by a judicious arrangement of subordinate institutions.
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| It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.
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| To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example, of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness. Had no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no government established of which an exact model did not present itself, the people of the United States might, at this moment have been numbered among the melancholy victims of misguided councils, must at best have been laboring under the weight of some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of the rest of mankind.
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| 01 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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| 01 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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| For a revolution to succeed, a number of factors have to come together. The government must appear so irremediably unjust or inept that it is widely viewed as a threat to the country's future; elites (especially in the military) must be alienated from the state and no longer willing to defend it; a broad-based section of the population, spanning ethnic and religious groups and socioeconomic classes, must mobilize; and international powers must either refuse to step in to defend the government or constrain it from using maximum force to defend itself. Revolutions rarely triumph because these conditions rarely coincide. This is especially the case in traditional monarchies and one-party states, whose leaders often manage to maintain popular support by making appeals to respect for royal tradition or nationalism. Elites, who are often enriched by such governments, will only forsake them if their circumstances or the ideology of the rulers changes drastically. And in almost all cases, broad-based popular mobilization is difficult to achieve because it requires bridging the disparate interests of the urban and rural poor, the middle class, students, professionals, and different ethnic or religious groups.
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| ...military could have killed the arab string before it even started. kind of a depressing thought. it wasnt tha people had power and were able to overpower the government. it was just confounding factors.
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