Des Droits et des Devoirs du Citoyen
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Adams#: Adams 163.4 v.4 Title: Des droits et des devoirs du citoyen
Author: Mably
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Marmontel at dinner with me said, "De Mably n'a jamais ecrit rien qu des choses tres communes et en style commune."
His writings are indeed commonplace, but I love to read them.
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Gens du roi.
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Good.
[?]
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Proh.
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True.
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Good.
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Nota.
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[?]
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[?]
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Nota.
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Nota.
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What ear music? Who shall brand it?
How shall the concurrence be effected?
Not seldom erroneous.
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Oh?
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Ah!
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Sound.
Very true. Those views are often popular.
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Quel? Indeed.
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He might as well say "it is liberty or life."
Rousseau is equally profound and more sublime. He is for putting to death the first man who said, "This rod of ground is mine."
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Human nature may as well be called Pandora's box. Liberty, religion itself may as well be called [...?]
No! Nor after three days.
Old Joseph Hayden, the pauper, said 60 years ago to my parents, "The world is unequally divided but I don't care nothing about it. For if it was divided equally today, in a fortnight, it would be as unequal as ever."
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Nota.
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Defense.
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As all other nations have done.
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Nota.
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Nota.
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Nota.
Nota.
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Who?
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This experience cannot be supported without exertion.
Nota.
Brutus Cato Montezuma [?]
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Free! for an Abby.
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Nota.
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States.
Nota.
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Without this, the 2 houses would soon usurp the executive power.
The Commons would soon dismiss lords and judges and become themselves a [?], and compel Cromwell or Napoleon to send them packing.
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Inaccurate.
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Nota.
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No.
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Mably never considered nature [] corruption, intrigue and maneuver in elections.
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Elections will never give worse magistrates [than] these.
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[?]
Government is vice.
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The [?]
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[]lly wrong.
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Elections in the st[?] must be a Majority and would the nobles, clergy, 3rd estate, or King command this Maje[?].
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Nota.
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Who [?]. King, clergy, nobles, 3rd estate?
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Who shall judge?