An edition of A fragment on government (1776)

A fragment on government

being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of government in general in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries: : With a preface, in which is given a critique of the work at large.

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An edition of A fragment on government (1776)

A fragment on government

being an examination of what is delivered, on the subject of government in general in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries: : With a preface, in which is given a critique of the work at large.

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This volume makes available one of the central texts in the development of utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected Works. Certain that history was on his side, Bentham sought to rid the world of the hideous mess wrought by legal obfuscation and confusion, and to transform politics into a rational, scientific activity, premised on the fundamental axiom that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

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ESTC t055748
Anonymous. By Jeremy Bentham.

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Library of Congress
JC223 .B46

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Pagination
[4], lvii, [3], 208 p. ;
Number of pages
208

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OL6441982M
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42027356
OCLC/WorldCat
12842784

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OL738293W

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