Here, then, is a sufficient inducement to maintain, with the utmost zeal, in every free state, those forms and institutions by which liberty is secured, the public good consulted, and the avarice or ambition of particular men restrained and punished.
David Hume (in Copley and Edgar, 1993, p. 21)
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IDEAS of civil liberties circulating in every society that subscribes to the cultural norms of the contemporary western civilization, whatever else may be claimed as their ...