On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volumen2Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1853 |
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Página vii
... age has added new and startling commentaries to many subjects discussed in the Political Ethics , and things there spoken of as probably passed all recurrence have since burst upon an amazed world . We would never have supposed that ...
... age has added new and startling commentaries to many subjects discussed in the Political Ethics , and things there spoken of as probably passed all recurrence have since burst upon an amazed world . We would never have supposed that ...
Página viii
... age . Men are intently bent on bold and comprehensive ends , and mischief is pursued with similar activity . The calling of our inter - oceanic country is a solemn one ; the youngest nation shall bind the old to the oldest , and the ...
... age . Men are intently bent on bold and comprehensive ends , and mischief is pursued with similar activity . The calling of our inter - oceanic country is a solemn one ; the youngest nation shall bind the old to the oldest , and the ...
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... age than they have been almost at any other period ; if it steady the reader against that enthusiasm which Wesley designates as " the looking to the end without the means ; " * if it * General Minutes , appended to his edition of the ...
... age than they have been almost at any other period ; if it steady the reader against that enthusiasm which Wesley designates as " the looking to the end without the means ; " * if it * General Minutes , appended to his edition of the ...
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... age , marked departments of k pirations before racteristic more de or extend freedom mankind . At no dern , has this impu and by such extens berty is so leading man who does not has acquired that s do not know wher raries , or merely i ...
... age , marked departments of k pirations before racteristic more de or extend freedom mankind . At no dern , has this impu and by such extens berty is so leading man who does not has acquired that s do not know wher raries , or merely i ...
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... age , marked by restless acti departments of knowledge , and aspirations before unknown , is sta racteristic more deeply than by a or extend freedom among the po mankind . At no previous perio dern , has this impulse been felt at and by ...
... age , marked by restless acti departments of knowledge , and aspirations before unknown , is sta racteristic more deeply than by a or extend freedom among the po mankind . At no previous perio dern , has this impulse been felt at and by ...
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Página 196 - that the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Página 171 - place the executive power in the same hands, we may readily simplify government. We may easily bring it to the simplest of all possible forms, a pure despotism. But a separation of departments, so far as practicable, and the preservation of clear lines of division between them, is the fundamental idea in the creation of all our
Página 170 - The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest limited monarchies;
Página 170 - all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights. In other words, they must be subject to rule and regulation. This is the very essence of free political institutions. " The spirit of liberty is, indeed, a bold and fearless spirit; but it is also a sharp-sighted spirit; it is a
Página 101 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court. 2. " Congress shall have power to declare the
Página 135 - raising and keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, without consent of parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.
Página 83 - The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus, the prohibition of ex post facto laws and of titles of nobility, to which we have no corresponding provisions in our constitution, are perhaps greater securities to liberty than any it contains;
Página 262 - the grand principle of the Saxon polity, the trial of facts by the country," says, " from this principle (except as to that preposterous relic of barbarism, the requirement of unanimity) may we never swerve—may we never be compelled in wish to swerve—by a contempt of their oaths in jurors, a disregard of the just limits of their trusts.
Página 53 - its objects. ~\ We come thus to the conclusion that liberty applied to political man, practically means, in the main, protection or checks against undue interference, whether this be from individuals, from masses, or from government. The highest amount of liberty comes to signify the safest guarantees of undisturbed legitimate