First published 1886
Popular Government: Four Essays
Popular Government: Four Essays by Henry Sumner Maine is available as a free PDF download at freecapitalists.org.
- Henry Sumner Maine
- First published
- 1886
- Format
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- London: John Murray, 1886 (3rd ed.); Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Four essays by Sir Henry Maine, first published in the Quarterly Review and issued as a book in 1885, here in the third edition of 1886. Maine questions the common justifications for popular government, including Rousseauian natural law and Benthamite utilitarianism, and warns that democracy is a fragile and, historically, rare form of rule.
Community
Discuss this book
No thread on Mises Community names this book yet. Start one.
Keep reading
