Freedom, Parliamentarism, Civil Rights and Political Rights. - Alfred Fouillée

Alfred Fouillée

"Erreurs sociologiques et morales de la Sociologie"

"Revue des deux Mondes"

1909

“If I make personal use of my right to go and come from Paris to Marseille, I do not prevent you from going from Paris to Marseille; 
the exercise of my civil right does not remove yours. 
But when I send a deputy to the Chamber who will work at your expense for measures you have always protested, this manner of governing myself implies a manner of governing you which distresses you and which could be unjust. 
Civil right is personal freedom; political right is a right over others as well as oneself.”