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Freedom and Corruption: Proudhon's Federal Principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon
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University of Western Ontario
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1981 , pp. 775 - 795
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1981

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1 Except where noted, all references below to this work are to the English translation, The Principle of Federation by P.-J. Proudhon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979),Google Scholar cited as The Principle.

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