...in the hands of the several layers (regional governments)." It has to be remembered that, after all, government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants and citizens of every politically defined region have a right that their wants should be provided for...

...importance of the European structure, they have placed it under an obligation to achieve a certain result. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom" (Burke 1790). Efficiency is therefore one of the keys to the system. Any proposal in the European sphere...

...need to have done but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Edmund Burke Laws that are unenforceable, cease to be penalties we have to pay. And rights that are...

...state is a means of promoting and maintaining welfare in society. m. i THE ROLE OF THE STATE II II 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.' The nature of government lll.la Government is a form of collective action. III. I .a. i Collective...

...abstract perfection is theit practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, our of civil sociery, of a sufficient restraint upon theit passions. Sociery requites not only that...

...their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men. — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Archival Origins Governments and organized...

...its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." — "In all forms of government the people are the true legislators." — Edmund Burke "We admit of...

...Albuquerque Journal, August 15, 1971, Harris Papers, 288/17. 13 New Populist If, as Edmund Burke explained, government is "a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," Fred Harris, following his withdrawal from the presidential race in November 1971, would seek almost...

...natural liberty, had lived in entire peace and harmony with all others. (Italics in original) David Hume Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. (Italics in original) Edmund Burke 2.1 Public goods and prisoners' dilemmas Probably the most important...

...defect." When men are told that they have "a right to every thing they want every thing." But since "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," among which is "the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions," men...