Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953) American political scientist
Source: A History of American Political Theories, 1903, p. vii; Preface, lead paragraph
“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p. 55.
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