The Mischiefs of Corruption
“All tyrannies,” wrote Algernon Sidney, “had their beginnings from corruption.” He drew most of his illustrations in Discourses Concerning Government from the Roman experience, which, in little over a hundred… Read more »
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Algernon Sidney and Corrective Self-Government
In a rambling chapter from his Discourses Concerning Government, Algernon Sidney wrote of a simple truth; when governors take their nation down an obvious path to tyranny, the governed have the… Read more »