The Constitutional Association on Forms of Government: A Historical Review and Estimate of the Growth of the Principal Types of Political Organism in ... Down to the Present Time (Classic Reprint) - John Stuart Blackie, Paperback

• Release Date   6/14/2017
• ISBN-13   9781333696849 | 978-1-333-69684-9
• ISBN   1333696841 | 1-333-69684-1
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   John Stuart Blackie
• Excerpt from The Constitutional Association on Forms of Government: A Historical Review and Estimate of the Growth of the Principal Types of Political Organism in Europe, From the Greeks and Romans Down to the Present TimeWe now pass by a single leap across the vast chasm of centuries from ancient Rome to modern prussia, in order to present to our imagina tions a well-marked type of a purely monarchical form of government. What the classical nations of antiquity combined to reject, and in their circumstances would likely have found impossible, a well ordered govern ment under an absolute kingship, that modern Europe has realized in Prussia with the most distinguished success. In estimating the capabilities of this form of governnrent however we must bear in mind that the Prussian power is of too modern a date to justify any very large conclusions with regard to the permanency of its political constitution, and that, in the shape of a reaction from the terrible blow of the battle of Jena, in 1806, it has already received into its autocratic body a certain infusion of the democratic spirit of the age which takes it out of the category of pure monarchy. We may define the Prussian polity there fore, since 1806, as an absolute monarchy, guided by the intelligence and qualified by the democratic spirit of the eighteenth century. Certain it is, however, that it has grown up rapidly to its present magnitude and importance chiefly under monarchical influences of the most unqualified character. The formal date of the reception of Prussia into the sisterhood of European monarchies, was the 18th of January, 1701 but the real commencement of the central vigour and power of growth which has char acterised this kingdom was the battle of F ehrbellin, gained by Frederick William, the Great Elector, over the Swedes in the year 1 67 5. In estimat ing the causes of the growth of a greatnation much no doubt is due to the fortunate epiphany of the right man at the right time and the right place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.