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Quotation from The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
“But without an agrarian law, government, whether monarchical, aristocratical, or popular, has no long lease.”
The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part I, The Preliminaries (Morley's Universal Library edition (1887), Project Gutenberg text)
Harrington argues that every form of government needs a law fixing the balance of land.
Citation: "But without an agrarian law, government, whether monarchical, aristocratical, or popular, has no long lease." — James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part I, The Preliminaries (Morley's Universal Library edition (1887), Project Gutenberg text). (id harrington-oceana-q3)
Portrait: James Harrington (jha), Unknown artist, Public domain.
