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of the people, by the people, for the people. It is chiefly the second factor in this definition that calls for comment here. It ...
passage, though long, deserves to be quoted in full: If the word 'democracy' is defined as the government of the people by thems ...
fact its main purpose is not service at all but exploitation.(3) He proceeds on: Of all the varieties of government it is probab ...
kingship, despotism and theocracy.* It is a bold advance on the earlier forms. By asserting equality of all men, by requiring th ...
Objective standards based on permanent values take a long-term view. Without them man cannot look very far beyond his immediate ...
merely indicate a form of political grouping; it has developed into a cult which arouses in the individual passionate devotion t ...
maintenance and development of its own power and well-being. Egoism – if you call this egoism – is the supreme principle of all ...
traps and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must, therefore, be a fox to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten wo ...
as your interest requires of you.(18) Politicians who follow Machiavelli believe that moral rules are not binding on them. They ...
consent. But this is neither logical nor is it true. The fact that a million people consent to an act which is wrong, does not m ...
changing man-made laws but his theory of Natural Law culminated in the modern Secular State. No doubt, in the first instance, "t ...
fails in its purpose, then it is your right and duty to try for and bring about a change.(23) The idea of a "higher law" is not ...
by its prohibitions it restrains them from doing wrong ... To invalidate this law by human legislation is never morally right, n ...
scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.(30) Dorsey, the historian of civilisation, has asserted that today mil ...
came into being before man began living in organized society (p. 54 ). Gerard, a professor in the University of Chicago, writes ...
References Viscount Samuel, Belief and Action, p. 39. Quoted by A.C. Ewing, in The Individual. The State and World Government, ...
POLITICAL SYSTEM PART II QUR’ANIC SYTEM I. Islamic View of Humanity IN an earlier chapter, we have given an exposition of the Is ...
men are equal, and that God alone has the right to rule over them (12:40) and none has the right to any share in it (18:26). The ...
boundary line of what is lawful-''limits" in the terminology of the Qur'an-which no one has the right to transgress. Within the ...
perfection. It is change which, while preserving the values achieved, adds to them and raises them to a higher level. II. Univer ...
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