Discourse on Inequality - American University of Beirut

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I should have particularly avoided, as necessarily ill−governed, a Republic in which the people, imagining themselves in a position to do without magistrates, or at least to leave them with only a precarious authority, should imprudently have kept for themselves the administration of civil affairs and the execution of their own laws.

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