Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course.
France neither had an absolute Government before 1830, nor had it a popular Government afterwards.
The dismay with which Metternich heard of the collapse of absolute government at Naples [319] was understood and even shared by the English Ministry, who at this moment were deprived of their best guide by Canning's withdrawal.
He insists that commerce demands a free government for its progress, pointing out, doubtless from his abundant French experience, that anabsolute government gives to the commercial class an insufficient status of honor.
He was convinced of the necessity of liberty to the progress of the arts and sciences; and no one, save Adam Smith, has more acutely insisted upon the evil effect on commerce of an absolute government.
But Locke retorts that an absolute government is no government at all since it proceeds by caprice instead of reason; and it is comparable only to a state of war since it implies the absence of judgment upon the character of power.
This sort of interference is characteristic of an absolute government, and is sure to provoke a reaction, and finally a remedy.
On close inspection we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
If he is unfortunate enough to live under an absolute government, the people is upon his side; if he inhabits a free country, he may find a shelter behind the authority of the throne, if he require one.
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