Gustave de Molinari

Name: The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities
Author: Gustave de Molinari

The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

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“The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities”, published in 2009, is a work by Gustave de Molinari. It explores elements such as Providence, majority and minority.

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ It is a law of the political world. God makes kings, word for word. He prepares royal races, nurtures them at the center of a cloud which hides their origins. Finally they appear, crowned with glory and honor; they take their places. [1] According to this system, which embodies the will of Providence in certain men and which invests these chosen ones, these anointed ones with a quasi-divine authority, the subjects evidently have no rights at all. They must submit, without question, to the decrees of the sovereign authority, as if they were the decrees of Providence itself. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ If one takes the thought into one's head that the leaders of the people do not receive their inspirations directly from providence itself, that they obey purely human impulses, the prestige that surrounds them will disappear. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ If you succeed in persuading the multitude that God himself has chosen certain men or certain races to give laws to society and to govern it, no one will dream of revolting against these appointees of Providence, and everything the government does will be accepted. A government based on divine right is imperishable. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ If it were true that society were not naturally organized, if it were true that the laws which govern its motion were to be constantly modified or remade, the legislators would necessarily have to have an immutable, sacred authority. Being the continuators of Providence on earth, they would have to be regarded as almost equal to God. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ According to the communist theory, of which Rousseau is the high-priest, authority does not descend from on high, but rather comes up from below. The government no longer looks to Providence for its authority, it looks to united mankind, to the one, indivisible, and sovereign nation. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ According to Plutarch, the body is the instrument of the soul, and the soul is the instrument of God. According to the divine right school, God selects certain souls and uses them as instruments for governing the world. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ Man does not make sovereigns. At the very most he can serve as an instrument for dispossessing one sovereign and handing his State over to another sovereign, himself already a prince. Moreover, there has never existed a sovereign family traceable to plebeian origins. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ One will irreverently resist their sovereign decisions, as one resists anything man-made whose utility has not been clearly demonstrated.
It is accordingly fascinating to see the pains theoreticians of the divine right take to establish the superhumanity of the races in possession of human government. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ Indeed, one cannot intervene in human affairs, one cannot attempt to direct and regulate them, without daily offending a multitude of interests. Unless those in power are believed to have a mandate from a superior entity, the injured interests will resist. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ Let us suppose that socialism succeeds in propagating itself among the working classes in the countryside as it has already among the working classes in the cities; that it consequently becomes the majority in the country and that, profiting from this situation, it sends a socialist majority to the Legislative Assembly and names a socialist president. Suppose that this majority and this president, invested with sovereign authority, decrees the imposition of a tax on the rich of three billion, in order to organize the labor of the poor, as Proudhon demanded. ”

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Gustave de Molinari, The Production of Security — The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities (2009)

“ They assume that human reason has the power to discover the best laws and the organization which most perfectly suits society; and that, in practice, these laws reveal themselves at the conclusion of a free debate between conflicting opinions. If there is no unanimity, if there is still dissension after the debate, the majority is in the right, since it comprises the larger number of reasonable individuals. ”

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