《加图来信(英文版)》内容简介:《加图来信》(Cato's Letters)文集写作时间为1721—1725,主要描述英国1689年光荣革命后当时英国的政治、经济、社会现状以及对英国君主立宪制的制度分析。这一部分的描述实质是对英国大哲学家洛克《政府论》(1689)的书信新闻以及政论社论体裁的祥细阐释。日后美国对建国制宪理念的经典书信新闻体裁《联邦党人文集》(1787)即是对Cato's Letters理念和文化的美国版。另外还有对人性本身及其背后西方文化的描述。
作者:(英国)约翰·特伦查德(John Trenchard) (英国)托马斯·戈登(Thomas Gordon)
11.一些恶极之罪虽没有违背国家现存之法律,但对其严惩的必要性与正义性
12.论成文法中缺失的叛逆罪,以及立法机关对于判逆罪的宣判权
13.借助于花言巧语误导人民的艺术
14.与依法治国的幸福明君相比,专制暴君无疑是痛苦的;而且由于后者滥用人民之委托信任,可能会丢掉头上的皇冠
15.论言论自由,兼论与言论自由不可分割之公共自由
16.政党领袖们的通识——为政党不再被引入歧途而给出的建议
17.无良大臣们在狗急跳墙时会采取何等手段来戕害国家
18.论公共腐败对国家的潜在危害——以罗马为鉴
19.对某些人而言,人民喜爱和厌恶的力量——这种力量一旦爆发何其强大,一旦爆发影响深远
20.以显著实例论社会正义对国泰民安的必要性及忽视社会正义对英国的危害
21.约翰·凯奇先生的一封来信:斩断肆行无忌的经纪人的脖颈以捍卫自身权利
22.若不受误导,民众的判断力通常是对的,兼论说服奈特先生归国认罪的重要性和可能性
23.布鲁图斯致西塞罗的一封令人难以忘怀的信函,兼及对信函的说明性介绍
24.论民众的诚实本性及他们的合理诉求,兼谈政府顾及民众喜好与利益之重要性
25.论专制强权的破坏性与毁灭性,兼论自由之益处,及我国宪法
26.阿尔格农·西德尼论普遍腐败的恶果
27.再论普遍腐败——其对公众之不祥预兆,令美德之人沮丧泄气,凡有腐败温床之地,必有致命创伤之处
28.回击诽谤者,为加图辩护
29.对议会发布调查某些莫须有渎神俱乐部决议的反思
30.一封布鲁图斯致阿提卡斯的美文信函,兼对此信函的解释性介绍
31.关于人性弱点与矛盾的几点思考
32.对诽谤的反思
33.千万警惕权力滥用的本性
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When King James came to the crown, though, setting bigotry apart, he had some royal virtues, being a prince of industry and good oeconomy; yet he suffered himself to be governed by a set of sycophants, many of them as foolish as they were nuschievous.The establishment of bare—faced Romish popery in the Church,and a lawless tyranny in the prince, became then his Majesty's measures; the ministers, who advised and promoted them, called themselves the government; and whoever opposed his reason, his honesty, and his publick spirit, against those traitors to the publick, was charged with flying in the face of the government, and opposing his Majesty's measures.ln what these measures ended,is well known:They cost his Majesty his kingdoms, and made him an honourable beggar in France all his life for his daily bread.