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Often appears with: treason and sedition · magistrates' avarice · fear of punishment · disproportionate growth · corruption, patronage, and bribery · conspiracy and assassination
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1)
He argues that magistrates’ ill-treatment, excessive profits, unjust honours, fear of punishment, contempt, and disproportionate growth of parts of a state can all spark revolutions and conspiracies.
What influence ill-treatment and profit have for this purpose, and how they may be the causes of sedition, is almost self-evident; for when the magistrates are haughty and endeavour to make greater profits than their office gives them, they not only occasion seditions amongst each other, but against the state also who gave them their power; and this their avarice has two objects, either private property or the proper…