Rob Edwards
Joseph de Maistre: “Essay on the Generative Principle f Political Constitutions”
Thesis: Joseph de Maistre critiqued the phiposophes, the French Revolution, and manufactured constitutions by claiming that constitutional law can only be the development or sanction of a pre-existing and unwritten law.
It was erroneous to believe that a political constitution could be created and written where reason and experience unite in proving that a constitution is a divine work and that precisely the most fundamental and essentially constitutional of a nation's laws could not possibly be written
The fundamental principles of political constitutions exist prior to all written law
constitutional law can only be the development or sanction of a pre-existing law
it is foolish to think that law can be created just with a pen and paper
Without Christianity, people become brutalized, and civilization degenerates into anarchy
Religion alone civilizes nations. No other known force can influence the savage
Science will brutalize humanity
Man cannot create a constitution, and no legitimate constitution can be written
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