Month: July 2024
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The Empire
The concept of empire has been considered since ancient times. The Roman historians Livy and Tacitus argued the empire formed not on the basis of force, but the capacity to present force as being in the service of right and peace. The empire was not born of its own will, but rather called into being…
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Freedom, The State, The Nation
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued that the sovereign derived his legitimacy from an unwritten social contract by which the individual forfeited their natural liberty in order to secure their natural right to life, which would otherwise be threatened by the “war of every man against every man.” Human beings were willing to concede their freedom…
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Accountability & The State
If we are to believe that democracy is the best government system known to men, then we should attempt to prove our premise. It is possible to do so with data provided by international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and research organizations such as the Pew Research Center. To study the…
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The State
To live and breathe in a democracy today is to believe that it is the best government system known to men. Democracy’s history has been traced all the way back to ancient Greece. Philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche saw it as a secularized version of the Christian doctrine of universal equality of human dignity,…
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