The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

78 Chapter IV a moderate freedom of the press. A few years were to show that the Swedish nobil- ity were not satisfied with the ...

Clashes with Monarchy 79 administration.... Other sovereigns seek increasingly to limit the nobility, because the true strength ...

80 Chapter IV and the young Joseph II, who became coregent with his mother, Maria Theresa, in “Whenever old disorders have been ...

Clashes with Monarchy 81 doctrine was calculated to appeal to the Magyar nobles. The idea that “intermedi- ate bodies” should ch ...

82 Chapter IV the same time they palpably insisted on the maintenance or enlargement of their own privileges. It was monarchy in ...

CHAPTER V A CLASH WITH DEMOCRACY: GENEVA AND JEAN- JACQUES ROUSSEAU We shall probably not devote to the largest monarchies artic ...

84 Chapter V their citizen guards, nervously sensitive to the outside world yet conscious of isola- tion from it, and filled wit ...

A Clash with Democracy 85 ritan tone of his greatest writings, and even the attitude of ever watchful suspicion of the people ar ...

86 Chapter V among humane and ingenious authors who proposed this or that change in gov- ernment, or the economy, or education, ...

A Clash with Democracy 87 nature as it might conceivably have been prior to government and civilization; but such idealization w ...

88 Chapter V Ferney to enjoy the giddy pleasures of the French neoclassic stage. A great con- troversy thereby began. One of the ...

A Clash with Democracy 89 themselves as members of its two main constituted bodies, the Council of Twenty- five and the Council ...

90 Chapter V Contract. Others of Rousseau’s works probably had more direct and actual influ- ence. His Emile presented the image ...

A Clash with Democracy 91 of the day, where they were supreme, such as the Parliament in Great Britain, made somewhat the same c ...

92 Chapter V dividually are known as citizens, in that they share in the sovereign authority, and subjects, in that they are sub ...

A Clash with Democracy 93 tion that makes a constitution authoritative. The past cannot bind the present. Even the inheritance o ...

94 Chapter V 1763, when he held that government should favor the common man against the Bohemian landlords. It is in his discuss ...

A Clash with Democracy 95 lished government must never be touched unless it has become incompatible with the public good; but th ...

96 Chapter V It held that law could draw its force and its legality only from the community it- self; as the French were to say ...

A Clash with Democracy 97 of the Syndics, but only as between candidates who belonged to the governing group. The Burghers were ...