The Cult of Incompetence
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The Cult of Incompetence is by Emile Faguet, translated from the French by Beatrice Barstow, with an introduction by Thomas Mackay. The contents list names chapters on the principles of forms of government, confusion of functions, judicial incompetence and examples of incompetence, among others. The book says that criminal verdicts, especially on the eve of an election, are now made liable to revision by ministers scouring the gaols of the country in search of picturesque malefactors.
The book holds that we know Peter the Great changed, by his laws, if not the character at least the manners and customs of his people. The book argues that a democratic element is required in the government of a people, because it is very dangerous that the people should be an enigma.
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- Author
- Émile Faguet
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Political Philosophy
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