Tracts on law, government, and other political subjects, collected and ed. by J. Palmer1836 |
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Página xiii
... justice in the realm of England ? England abased in morals , will be reduced in the scale of nations ; and the vengeance of popery upon the people , who have , with mightiest energy , shaken her power , will be the first to strip her ...
... justice in the realm of England ? England abased in morals , will be reduced in the scale of nations ; and the vengeance of popery upon the people , who have , with mightiest energy , shaken her power , will be the first to strip her ...
Página xiv
... venerable and estimable men without agonizing sym- pathy , must have hearts of granite . Surely every right minded individual will loathe and execrate those who , under pretence of reform , and in violation of humanity , justice xii.
... venerable and estimable men without agonizing sym- pathy , must have hearts of granite . Surely every right minded individual will loathe and execrate those who , under pretence of reform , and in violation of humanity , justice xii.
Página xv
... justice , law , and the compact of the union , have caused these cruel calamities . Will not the vengeance of Heaven strike the authors of them , if their own consciences are callous ? Verily , they well deserve the epithets lately ...
... justice , law , and the compact of the union , have caused these cruel calamities . Will not the vengeance of Heaven strike the authors of them , if their own consciences are callous ? Verily , they well deserve the epithets lately ...
Página xxi
... support of legal Authorities , will to many appear very extraordinary , or perhaps absurd . Mankind in general are na- turally inclined to determine every case submitted to their judgment , according to their own ideas of justice and.
... support of legal Authorities , will to many appear very extraordinary , or perhaps absurd . Mankind in general are na- turally inclined to determine every case submitted to their judgment , according to their own ideas of justice and.
Página xxi
... justice , he will often disregard the opinion of the court , and the arguments of the counsel , if they do not agree with his own sentiments— the law he admits may be on one side - but reason and justice , he thinks , are on the other ...
... justice , he will often disregard the opinion of the court , and the arguments of the counsel , if they do not agree with his own sentiments— the law he admits may be on one side - but reason and justice , he thinks , are on the other ...
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Página 227 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página i - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Página 80 - The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 80 - ... under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
Página 76 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Página 38 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Página 80 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 31 - Church's safety are dearer to me than my life, but my conscience dearer than both : and therefore give me leave to do my duty, and tell you, that princes are deputed nursing fathers of the Church...
Página 76 - The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
Página 148 - Government is a con.trivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.