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    Wealth and Law
    Wealth and Law
    Wealth and Law
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    Wealth and Law

    By James Constant

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    Jurisprudence. Philosophy of Law. Uncertainty of Law and Constitutional Government. This book looks at Wealth and Law: Minority Rule;Legislation and Revolution; Government by Lawyers; Lawyers and Wealth

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Constant
    Release dateOct 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301876600
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    writes on law, government, mathematics and science, as they are and as they should be

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      Wealth and Law - James Constant

      Wealth and Law

      By James Constant

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      Copyright © 1993, 2013 by James Constant

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      Table of Contents

      Minority Rule

      Legislation and Revolution

      Government by Lawyers

      Lawyers and Wealth

      WEALTH AND LAW

      In his Republic, Plato (427?-347? B.C,) says that every government tends to perish by its excess, that government should be harmonious and efficient, that such a society is just and best for survival.[278] In their book The Lessons of History, Will (1885-1981 A.D.) and Ariel Durant tell us what history has to say about the nature, conduct, and prospects of governments, that capitalism and socialism have occurred together in every society, that the tensions between them lead to violence as a general rule and only infrequently lead to peace between the classes, and that change is inevitable sooner or later.[279] While tensions tend to minimize in a balanced society, in which neither freedom or equality exist in excess of the other, it is the presence of individual rights that characterize the good and bad society, good and bad laws. A balanced society is requisite to a good society and good laws. In his book The Secret Constitution, Arthur S. Miller (1917-1988 A.D.) tells us that, today, two things can be said of representative democracy in the United States, first, effective power does not reside in Congress and, second, there is little that is democratic about the exercise of that power.[280] These lessons sweep aside the utopias

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