POLS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personal Rights, Eviction, Deed
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Who are we to ask by what criterion: a single thought will show us that in the great freehold of freedom, our predecessors, like ourselves, were just tenants for life. The absolute fee wasn"t in them, it"s not in us; it belongs in all ages to the whole human family. When we consider other than that we consider as slaves or tyrants. "generation" in the context of the term being used here is to be understood: as a natural tennis the significance is plain enough. So many distinct generations are the father, the son and the grandson. For the twelve million people, six million are to be twenty-one years old and six are to be under, and the right to rule is to be among the first six. Yet everyday will make some improvement, and in twenty-one years each of those remaining minors will have reached maturity.
