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Constant's middle path.("Constants Principles of Politics Applicable to All Modern Governments")(Book Review)

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| June 01, 2004 | Mahoney, Daniel J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Liberty Fund has published an elegant, faithfully translated edition of the first (1810) and longest version of Constants Principles of Politics Applicable to All Modern Governments (the shorter 1815 edition is available in English in the edition of Constant's Political Writings published by Cambridge University Press). (1) The 1810 version is considerably more discursive than the pithy and carefully crafted work of the same name published in 1815. This makes reading it something of an effort. But the 1815 version has limitations. It was to some extent a livre de circonstance. By it, Constant aimed, at least in part, to justify the "Benjamine," the framework for ...

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