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... legislator would be well advised to tell patient or citizen the reason for their prescription . This explanation belongs in a preamble to the law : The arbitrary command , which was compared to the commands of doctors , whom we ...
... legislator would be well advised to tell patient or citizen the reason for their prescription . This explanation belongs in a preamble to the law : The arbitrary command , which was compared to the commands of doctors , whom we ...
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... legislator " ) in Book II of the So- cial Contract . ( This work will be discussed in the Eleventh Reading . ) if great princes are rare , how much more so are great legislators ? The former have only to follow the pattern which the ...
... legislator " ) in Book II of the So- cial Contract . ( This work will be discussed in the Eleventh Reading . ) if great princes are rare , how much more so are great legislators ? The former have only to follow the pattern which the ...
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Peter Wolff. as one of them for his achievement as legislator for Geneva . Because the legislator works prior to the existence of a con- stitution , he cannot rely on the constitution to authenticate his acts ...
Mortimer Jerome Adler, Peter Wolff. as one of them for his achievement as legislator for Geneva . Because the legislator works prior to the existence of a con- stitution , he cannot rely on the constitution to authenticate his acts ...
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PLATO Euthyphro Laws Apology | 17 |
ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics | 28 |
SelfTesting Questions | 60 |
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