Project Gutenberg 2025-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 142 Faguet, Émile 1847 1916 Faguet, Emile Faguet, Auguste-Émile Szánthó, Gyula Szantho, Gyula Et l'horreur des responsabilités. Hungarian "... és a felelősségtől való rettegés" : $b "A kontárság kultuszának" folytatása $aBudapest :$bFranklin-Társulat, $c1922. Albert László from page images generously made available by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences "... és a felelősségtől való rettegés" : "A kontárság kultuszának" folytatása by Émile Faguet is a political and legal essay written in the early 20th century. It argues that a cultural fear of responsibility has shaped French institutions since the Revolution, encouraging mechanical legality, bureaucratic dependence, and moral evasion. Building on his earlier critique of incompetence, Faguet probes how legal doctrines and administrative structures foster unaccountable judges and a subservient judiciary. The opening of the work stakes a bold thesis: modern France strives to make decision-makers irresponsible, especially in law. Faguet contrasts judges who rigidly apply statutes (thereby avoiding moral judgment) with the older, precedent-shaping English judges and the Roman praetors who accepted real responsibility. He revisits Montesquieu versus Voltaire on the venality of offices, arguing that hereditary or purchased judicial posts once secured independence from the executive, whereas the Revolution tethered courts to the government, producing a double irresponsibility (strict textualism plus political dependence). To illustrate, he dissects a case against Cardinal Luçon about mixed public schools, accusing the court of trusting ministerial assurances, neglecting factual inquiry, and even twisting a legal opinion. He then analyzes the Dreyfus affair’s cassation ruling, claiming the court subtly inverted a procedural article to avoid remand, thereby serving state convenience while leaving the affair morally unresolved. The section closes by hinting at ministerial influence behind such outcomes, underscoring the book’s core theme: institutions engineered to evade accountability. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250527090839faguet 1922 hu Reading ease score: 56.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. hu Democracy National characteristics, French Aristocracy (Social class) Responsibility Justice, Administration of -- France JC Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: French Literature Category: Law & Criminology Category: Politics 303383 2025-07-30T07:00:05.778472 text/html 281559 2025-05-28T12:53:03 text/html 200702 2025-07-30T07:00:13.309940 application/epub+zip 201105 2025-07-30T07:00:09.104945 application/epub+zip 181807 2025-07-30T07:00:07.779989 application/epub+zip 387956 2025-07-30T07:00:16.429943 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361637 2025-07-30T07:00:12.474946 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278315 2025-07-30T07:00:05.149530 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 258329 2025-05-28T12:53:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15431 2025-07-30T07:00:16.581926 application/rdf+xml 15897 2025-07-30T07:00:08.365973 image/jpeg 3519 2025-07-30T07:00:08.078965 image/jpeg 186419 2025-07-30T07:00:05.802521 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia