This
paper discusses the article by David Hume entitled "That
Politics May be Reduced to a Science", examining the nature of
government and the differences which create argument and dissension. The paper explains that some maintain that all the
goodness of government
derives from the goodness of the
administration, which also means that a bad government derives from a bad administration. Examples are cited showing that this is the case and Hume states that all absolute governments depend on the administration, which he sees as a weakness in the form of government. On the other hand, he states that a republican and free government would be an absurdity unless there were real controls imposed by a constitution. Hume then discusses the nature of law in regard to government and thereby attempts to reduce politics to a science.
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