Sublime

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

William Keeling,

Jeremy Bentham declared that the supreme good is ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’, and

New Zealand became the first country in the world to legally recognise animals as sentient beings,

Johnson had persuaded Graham, and Graham had persuaded Rauh, and Rauh had persuaded Wilkins—and now, in that law library on K Street, Wilkins persuaded the Leadership Conference. In the late afternoon, at the end of a long day, the conference issued a statement saying that “Disappointing as the Senate version is, it does contain some potential good

"Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.

Alors qu’elle met en crise le modèle anglais, la révolution américaine suscite des représentations et des espérances qui se révéleront complètement irréalistes. L’illusion consiste à croire que, dans la république née d’une grande lutte pour la liberté, l’institution de l’esclavage est destinée à disparaître rapidement. C’est en ces termes que s’ex