Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom. Richard Price

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       Richard Price

      Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom

      With a General Introduction and Supplement

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066134761

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       PREFACE TO The FIRST EDITION.

       PREFACE TO The FIFTH EDITION.

       OBSERVATIONS, &c.

       SECT. I. Of the Nature of Liberty in General.

       SECT. II. Of Civil Liberty and the Principles of Government.

       SECT. III. Of the Authority of one Country over another.

       PART II.

       SECT. I. Of the Justice of the War with America.

       SECT. II. Whether the War with America is justified by the Principles of the Constitution.

       SECT. III. Of the Policy if the War with America .

       SECT. IV. Of the Honour of the Nation as affected by the War with America .

       SECT. V. Of the Probability of Succeeding in the War with America .

       CONCLUSION.

       CONTENTS.

       INTRODUCTION.

       PART I. SUPPLEMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE Nature and Value of Civil Liberty and Free Government .

       SECT. I. Of the Nature of Civil Liberty, and the Essentials of a Free Government.

       SECT. II. Of the Value of Liberty, and the Excellence of a Free Government.

       CONCLUSION.

       PART II. CONTAINING Remarks on some Particulars in a Speech at opening the Budget in April 1776 .

       SECT. I. Supplemental Observations on the Surplus of the Revenue; the Quantity of Coin in the Kingdom; and Paper-Credit.

       SECT. II. Of the State of the Nation; and the War with America.

       SECT. III. Of Schemes for raising Money by Public Loans.

       PART III.

       SECT. I. Abstract of the Exports from and Imports to Great-Britain from 1697 to 1773, with Remarks .

       SECT. II. Historical Deduction and Analysis of the Public Debts .

       SECT. III. Of the Debts and Resources of France.

       SECT. IV. Containing an Account of the National Income and Expenditure; the Surplus of the Revenue; and the Money drawn from the Public by the Taxes; with Remarks on Lord Stair’s Account.

       POSTSCRIPT.

       POSTSCRIPT.

       SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION III PART II.

       Corrections and Additions .

       A Summary View and Comparison of the different Schemes of Public Loans described in the Supplement .

PREFACE

       TO

       The FIRST EDITION.

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      In the following Observations, I have taken that liberty of examining public measures, which, happily for this kingdom, every person in it enjoys. They contain the sentiments of a private and unconnected man; for which, should there be any thing wrong in them, he alone is answerable.

      After all that has been written on the dispute with America, no reader can expect to be informed, in this publication, of much that he has not before known. Perhaps, however, he may find in it some new matter; and if he should, it will be chiefly in the Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, and the Policy of the War with America.

      February 8th, 1776.

PREFACE

       TO

       The FIFTH EDITION.

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      The favourable reception which the following Tract has met with, makes me abundant amends for the abuse it has brought upon me. I should be ill employed were I to take much notice of this abuse: But there is one circumstance attending it, which I cannot help just mentioning.—The principles on which I have argued form the foundation of every state as far as it is free; and are the same with those taught by Mr. Locke, and all the writers on Civil Liberty who have been hitherto most admired in this country. But I find with concern, that our Governors chuse to decline trying by them their present measures: For, in a Pamphlet which