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The Principle of Federation by P.J. Proudhon.

A widely read and influential text in its own day, P.-J. Proudhon's Du Principe federatif is now often overlooked by students of federalism. Yet the book's theoretical and general chapters, in the first English translation, can claim to be considered a key text for the history of federalis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vernon, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Notes to the introduction
  • PART ONE
  • 1. Political dualism - authority and liberty: opposition and interconnection of the two ideas
  • 2. A priori conceptions of political order: regime of authority, regime of liberty
  • 3. Forms of government
  • 4. Compromise between the principles: origins of political contradictions
  • 5. De facto governments: social dissolution
  • 6. The political problem posed: the principle of a solution
  • 7. Isolation of the idea of federation
  • 8. A progressive constitution
  • 9. What has delayed federation: factors hindering the idea
  • 10. Political idealism: efficacy of federal guarantees
  • 11. Economic sanctions: the agro-industrial federation
  • PART TWO
  • 1. The Jacobin tradition: federalist Gaul, monarchical France
  • Translator's notes on the text