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 federalist thinking...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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