The fundamental problems of government, like most of the really basic problems of human existence, do not change. They remain essentially the same in all ages and in all places. Since the remote, prehistorical times when men first sought to improve their hard lot by establishing civil government of some kind - how, when, or where, no one can say - the fundamental problems involved must have been present, however dimly realized, as they are still present today. These problems, then as now, are essentially how to reconcile apparently opposite aims and ideals. How to reconcile, without constant resort to force, law with liberty, progress with stability, the State with the individual; how to reconcile government in power to law of some kind;how to reconcile government, strong enough to be effective, with the consent of at least the majority of the governed: these are the fundamental problems, always existent, always in the naturee of things demanding solution. It is not the problem that change; it is the solutions to them that very from age and from place to place. An infinity variety of solutions has been propounded in the course of human history.
Casalino Pierluigi
Casalino Pierluigi
