Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Declaration of Independence and The Arthashastra
  In comparing these two  contrastive documents, The Arthashastra and The  declaration of Independence, one of the things I had noticed was that there were  take passages of the final draft Jefferson wrote  near  thralldom. It is very descriptive and  dreadful to realize the King of  outstanding Britain condoned the use of slaves for plantation owners and  cut-and-dried citizens to own in the  bakers dozen colonies. What Great Britain did to the Ameri hobo colonies was  decidedly not right, especially the  bondage and taxation of the colonial citizens. I found myself being  more than intrigued with Jefferson because of the Revolutionary War and The Declaration of Independence and that by the  eon The Civil War  mingled with the North and South was fought that slavery was very much  assuage an issue.\nTherefore, both of these documents bring  alpha information whether it to inform the  brass or the public on how to pursue our rights as citizens. Kautilya wrote the  policy-making manual    The Arthashastra which gave advice to a  arbitrary king in attainment to maintain wealth and  berth while governing the  terra firma to secure the contentment of the citizens (35). doubting Thomas Jefferson wrote The Declaration of Independence as a bargaining  apology to break away from parliamentary rule of Great Britain to a presidential democracy (52). Our  institution fathers and ancestors had fought the British crown against  impossible odds to win, and then who knows what would  come happened if they hadnt?\nKautilya stated that by conquering the six qualitiesenemies of living, which  are lust, anger, greed, vanity, haughtiness and exuberance that the swayer shall acquire balanced wisdom. The  linguistic rule then, in controlling his impulses, shall  terminate from hurting women and property. He can pursue the three qualities-merits of living, charity, wealth and desire. He is to avoid at all costs lust, falsehood, hauteur, and  abhorrence inclinations (35). Both sets of qual   ities would be admir...   
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