Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Hume, Smith and Ferguson Ideas of Liberty, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Problem of America -with a Preliminary Note on Hutcheson'All men', say they, 'are born free and equal: Government and superiority can only be establish'd by consent: The consent of men, in establishing government, imposes on them a new obligation, unknown to the laws of nature.Men, therefore, are bound to obey their magistrates, only because they promise it; and if they had not given their word, either expressly or tacitly, to preserve allegiance, it wou'd never have become a part of their moral duty.'This conclusion, however, when carry'd so far as to comprehend government in all its ages and situations, is entirely erroneous …
Source: Aberdeen University Press eBooks
DOI: 10.57132/book20-3
Author: Ronald Lyndsay Crawford
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312833968