Government is Incomplete Conquest
... the terms of the contract. The victors, that is the thugs, emerged cleansed and sanctified as the feudal aristocracy. When Thomas Hobbes grounded his theory of government in the consent of free individuals born with inalienable rights, he didn't ... ..., derived from both the Feudal aristocracy and from the rising elites of trade and commerce started out adamantly opposed to democracy. They feared and resisted extension of the franchise, and democratization more generally. Most of the Framers of the ...
22.10.2015