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" They endeavor to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon the equality of all the citizens, and as if establishing... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 393
1787
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 76

Books - 1787 - 672 pages
...motive, inftead of colletling all authority into one centre, that of the nation, " they have eftablifhed different bodies, a body of Reprefentatives, a Council,...founded upon the equality of all the citizens, and as if eftablifhing different orders of men was not a fource of divifions and difputes." This loofe, indigefted...
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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America ...

John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
..." lords, and a king. They endeavour to ba" lance thefe different powers, as if this equi" librium, which in England may be a neceflary " check to the...royalty, " could be of any ufe in republics founded up" on the equality of all the citizens, and as if " eftablifhing different orders of men was not a...
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States ..., Volume 4

John Adams - United States - 1851 - 666 pages
...there is in England a house of commons, a house of lords, and a king. They endeavor to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon...
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On Civil Liberty and Self-government

Francis Lieber - Civil rights - 1874 - 636 pages
...there is in England, a house of commons, a house of lords, and a king. They endeavored to balance three different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon...
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American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of ...

Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...there is in England a house of commons, a house of lords, and a king. They endeavor to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon...
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

Craig Nelson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 436 pages
...there is in England a House of Commons, a House of Lords, and a King. They endeavor to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon...
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The Europeanization of the World: On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy

John M. Headley - History - 2008 - 316 pages
...there is in England a House of Commons, a House of Lords, and a King. They endeavor to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in Republics founded upon the...
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Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era

Elsie Begler - Political scientists - 2007 - 319 pages
...that of the nation, they have established different bodies . . . They endeavor to balance these 277 different powers, as if this equilibrium, which in England may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of royalty, could be of any use in republics founded upon...
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