While Voltaire, Condorcet and Descartes used reason to confront superstition and feudalism, thinkers across the Channel – Brooks cites Burke, Hume and Adam Smith – thought it unwise to trust reason.
People focused on the tally process might choose to call Hare's rule "Majority-IRV" and Hill's rule "Condorcet-IRV".
Condorcet假設眾多個體是追求一個共同目標。
Hill's rule enacts the Condorcet winner if there is one.
But the IRV and Condorcet rules have been tested for 100 years.
Colonies, as Smith and Bentham argued, are not cost-effective - and, as Kant and DE Condorcet believed, they are also unjust.
He has a little room on the Rue Condorcet for which he pays sixty francs a month.