Show GOOD government what principles are necessary to accomplish jj ALL KINDS OF government their nature and workings explained mills writing about liberty history of faiia rule that portion past called the antediluvian period gave birth to patriarchal government which meant simply family government consisting of the natural right of parents to govern their own children this government not only embodied the right of patriarchal ruleen far as a single family waa concerned but it included the idea of a common progenitor the oldest male presided holding govern denul right thereto theocracy Theo racy ficai ahto meaning deity was applicable to a of government boldine god as alie supreme ruler whose fiat was law and vlisse oracles ere prophets and inspired men alius hebraic govern mentor the government 0 the hebrews was a theocratic government monarchy represents power as inherited in a single person in a monarch ial government the controlling power lies in one person who is sole ruler of he people monarchy may be absolute or limited antagonistic views engendering differently in acceding to the will of the many resulted in monarchial government absolute monarchy means absolute pow er over the subjects of a government the will of the monarch is law here authority knows no check infractions of law being punishable by the monarch who is judge of his own acts yet there are restraints stra ints to absolute authority no despotic government may be said to bo without some checks to despotism tyrants cannot set aside national religion or ignore totally the religious sentiments or creed of a nation nor can they utterly abrogate the rients of subjects the dread of revolution placing a check upon their lawlessness limited monarchy is environed by constitutional provisions which constitute its checks democracy is government by the people unadulterated democracy requires that the people meet in general assembly to enact laws for the common defense such a government is practically inapplicable to large populations covering great areas of country in the united states we see an extension of the principle of pure democracy republican government embraces the idea of representative democracy or that of the people sending certain persons to do for them what they would do for themselves popes opinion of the forms of government is expressed thus the forms of government let fools contest whatever Wh ateer is best administered is best all history attests that human liberty is never safe in the hands of corrupt men mill says A government is to be judged bv its action boon men and by its action upon things by what it citizens and what it does for them its tendency to improve or or deteriorate the people themselves and the goodness or badness of the work it performs for them ad by means of them republican government is an outgrowth of the intelligence of the peo pie yo one man claims it origin no one brain produced it most of republicanism lican ism is traceable to the common law of england that law indeed is the corner stone of all oar jurisprudence its principles found their way into the constitution of the united states all of the principles embodied in the constitution of the united states are written in the common law of england passed at different periods and covering quite a lapse of time it remained for the masterminds master minds of the united states to embody and arrange in a single instrument the grand and sublime principles of the magna Gh artaN such instrument can be found in the wide world outside of the united states but the sublime beems of human government lay as pearls glistening in the sun ever and anon to be found in the vast mass of legal lore comprising the common law of england modern government with all its evils with all its abuses of power and the enormous expense of its offices ia vastly superior to that of the little petty feudal kings et Phe nican times then a king wag a sort of temporary thing subject to removal from the slightest cause the wars of those periods were frequent and merciless hand to hand encounters often ended in the death of the assailed or or both such wars might arise at any moment keeping the coun try in constant fear matters of trifling import often gaye rise to angry dispute resulting in bloody and continuous war subsequently government became more stable and kingly power more respected and respectable thus with all its faults at present it has connected with it the idaa of permanent government concord between alie nobles and the thrown has induced the idea of safety to life and property yet governments fall far short of what they should be although union to a certain extent exists engendered not so much in a love for humanity as from the restraints imposed by Eu ropes carefully adjusted balance of power system this system impresses upon every european government a fear to strike beyond certain lines marked out in the general governmental ern mental restraint argument with all this in view thank god that the governments of the present with some prescriptive exceptions have given to their subjects a free press which is the light of the social world the hub oi civilization itself the very sounding wave of thought check this free thought becomes stunted and the colossal work of human development injured the press is the sceptre of thought a vast force reproving and refining man kind the fetters lot despotism will era iona be snapped by its increasing power the growth of press power means no slavery for body or mind it is irresistibly assailing despotism from every quarter advance is its watchword darkness is dispersed he fare it iti of the coward and the traitor persecution fanaticism aud tyranny will yet be banished by its night martyrdoms Martyr doms proscription sand unjust laws must ere long be no more abay god grant the day speedily our own nation has much to learn in this respect ment and liberal policy embracing the purest and most ennobling features will yet be the outgrowth of in intelligence and a vastly more development of humanity the b allowance for difference of religious and creed will be the full grown fruit of governmental experience and the folly of abridging the exercise of religion will meet with just condemns tion alike from believer and unbeliever 1 CD C D EVENS april |