PAPM 1000 Chapter Reading: Essay VIII - Of Parties in General Notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Andre Gagnon

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Legislators and founders of states, who transmit a system of laws and institutions to secure the peace, happiness, and liberty of future generations. Men"s happiness consists not so much in an abundance of these, as in the peace and security with which they possess them; and those blessings can only be derived from good government. The founders of sects and factions to be detested and hated; because the influence of faction is directly contrary to that of laws. General virtue and good morals in a state are required to maintain happiness and these can never arise from philosophy or religion. These are derived from education of youth, the effect of wise laws and institutions. While legislators and founders of states are to be respect, the founder of factions are to be hated. Because factions oppose laws, create animosity among men, undermine government, and these things provide mutual assistance and protection for each other.