The new state : $b Group organization the solution of popular governmentFollett, Mary Parker
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The new state : $b Group organization the solution of popular government
Follett, Mary Parker
Democracy; Political participation; Social psychology; State, The
De Maeztu tells us, “Rights do not arise from personality. This idea
is mystic and unnecessary. Rights arise primarily from the relation of
the associated with the thing which associates them....” Authority,
Liberty, and Function, p. 250.
Mr. Barker substitutes purpose for personality and will as the
unifying bond of associations, and says that we thus get rid of
“murder in the air” when it is a question of the “competition of
ideas, not of real collective personalities.” (See “The Discredited
State,” in _The Political Quarterly_, February, 1915.) This seems a
curiously anthropomorphic, so to speak, idea of personality for a
twentieth-century writer. The article is, however, an interesting and
valuable one.
See also Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, I, 472.
Footnote 111:
See “Underlying Principles of Legislation.”
Footnote 112:
The teleological school of sociology is interesting just here. While
it marked a long advance on older theories, the true place of
selection of ends is to-day more clearly seen. We were told: “Men have
wants, therefore they come together to seek means to satisfy those
wants.” When do men “come together”? When were they ever separated?
But it is not necessary to push this further.
Footnote 113:
I have tried not to jump the track from legal right to ethical right
but occasionally one can speak of them together, if it is understood
that one is not thereby merging them.
Footnote 114:
The old consent theory assumes that some make the laws and others obey
them. In the true democracy we shall obey the laws we have ourselves
made. To find the methods by which we can be approaching the true
democracy is now our task; we can never rest satisfied with “consent.”
Footnote 115:
Although I do not agree with the form individualism takes in his
doctrine.
Footnote 116:
Some of the pluralists are concerned, I recognize, with the fact
rather than the right of sovereignty.
Footnote 117:
The trouble with the pluralists is that their emphasis is not on the
fact that the group creates its own personality, but on the fact that
the state does _not_ create it. When they change this emphasis, their
thinking will be unchained, I believe, and leap ahead to the
constructive work which we eagerly await and expect from them.
Footnote 118:
It is also necessary to an understanding of the new international law.
See ch. XXXV, “The World State.”
Footnote 119:
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