On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volumen2Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1853 |
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... common criminal trials , in favor of the accused , an exception the very ... law , and that country may claim the imperish- 1 I do not only allude to ... law changed when it could not be bent to his tyrannical acts . Despots in other ...
... common criminal trials , in favor of the accused , an exception the very ... law , and that country may claim the imperish- 1 I do not only allude to ... law changed when it could not be bent to his tyrannical acts . Despots in other ...
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... common law and established the trial by jury . In England , the principles of self - government were not swept away , and all the chief principles and guaran- tees of her great charter and the petition of rights have passed over into ...
... common law and established the trial by jury . In England , the principles of self - government were not swept away , and all the chief principles and guaran- tees of her great charter and the petition of rights have passed over into ...
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... common law of England , and the common law as it has developed itself on this side of the Atlantic ; and especially into the leading cases of political and constitutional importance that have been decided in England 68 ON CIVIL LIBERTY ...
... common law of England , and the common law as it has developed itself on this side of the Atlantic ; and especially into the leading cases of political and constitutional importance that have been decided in England 68 ON CIVIL LIBERTY ...
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... common law of the land itself , and is exhibited in a yet stronger light in the Latin ver- sion , which is , Domus sua enique est tutissimum refugium , and Nemo de domo sua extrahi debet , which led the great Chatham , when speaking on ...
... common law of the land itself , and is exhibited in a yet stronger light in the Latin ver- sion , which is , Domus sua enique est tutissimum refugium , and Nemo de domo sua extrahi debet , which led the great Chatham , when speaking on ...
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... common law could deposit such fruitful soil . For , it must be observed , that this sterling maxim was not esta- blished , and is not maintained , by a sejunctive or a law - defying race . The Mainots considered their Lacedæmonian ...
... common law could deposit such fruitful soil . For , it must be observed , that this sterling maxim was not esta- blished , and is not maintained , by a sejunctive or a law - defying race . The Mainots considered their Lacedæmonian ...
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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