 In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Pàgina 211per Edmund Burke - 1803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edmund Burke - 1791 - 824 pàgines
...of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other...fociety has been caft. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compact or agreement which gives its corporate form and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1791 - 232 pàgines
...of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other...What the particular nature of that agreement was, is collecled from the form into, which the particular fociety has been caft. Any other is not their covenant.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pàgines
...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal ficYions by common agreement. What the particular nature of...fociety has been caft. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compacl or agreement which gives its corporate form and... | |
 | 1795 - 688 pàgines
...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fanions by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement was, is coltecled from the Form into which the particular fociety has been cart. Any other is not their covenant.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pàgines
...of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other...the form into which the particular fociety has been call. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original compact or agreement... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pàgines
...of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other...collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | 1811 - 662 pàgines
...of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial; and made, like all other...particular fociety has been caft. Any other is not tbeir covenant. When men, there- Mr.Burke. fore, break up the original compact or agreement which gives... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pàgines
...of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other...collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast. Any other is not their covenant. When men, therefore, break up the original... | |
 | 1827 - 564 pàgines
...which form the rudiments of a collective capacity. " The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation, it is wholly artificial, and made like all other legal fictions, by common agreement." Indeed, is the social principle artificial? Is the gift of articulate speech, which enables man to... | |
 | 1827 - 544 pàgines
...capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation, it is * The appeal from the New to the Old wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement." " In a state of rude nature, there is no such thing as a people !" I would fain learn in what corner... | |
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