Monarchy and DemocracyBain, 1880 - 192 páginas |
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... Statesman- ship , but it is not the system which prevails in the present day . There is an incessant inter- ference with the governed ; and the legislation of every recurring session imposes some new restriction on human freedom . This ...
... Statesman- ship , but it is not the system which prevails in the present day . There is an incessant inter- ference with the governed ; and the legislation of every recurring session imposes some new restriction on human freedom . This ...
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... according to the opinions entertained by high legal autho- rities , learned historians , and distinguished statesmen . On this important constitutional matter it will not be uninstructive 4 OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY .
... according to the opinions entertained by high legal autho- rities , learned historians , and distinguished statesmen . On this important constitutional matter it will not be uninstructive 4 OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY .
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... statesmen and to the political party to whom he owed the crown . He was proud of being a king , but German politics and the interests of Hanover occupied his chief attention . Nevertheless , he per- formed the duties of his high station ...
... statesmen and to the political party to whom he owed the crown . He was proud of being a king , but German politics and the interests of Hanover occupied his chief attention . Nevertheless , he per- formed the duties of his high station ...
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... which he should regard rival states- men . Personal attachments and aversions will interfere with the appointment of public functionaries , and royal favourites are uni- versally detested . OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY . 21.
... which he should regard rival states- men . Personal attachments and aversions will interfere with the appointment of public functionaries , and royal favourites are uni- versally detested . OF CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNTY . 21.
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... statesmen , to whom we owe our constitutional freedom , did not perplex themselves with theories of natural rights and laws of nature , but founding their claims on the Great Charter ( which Hallam justly calls the keystone of English ...
... statesmen , to whom we owe our constitutional freedom , did not perplex themselves with theories of natural rights and laws of nature , but founding their claims on the Great Charter ( which Hallam justly calls the keystone of English ...
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Página 124 - THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Página 47 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Página 184 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Página 47 - Men have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful.
Página 127 - The laws which, in many countries on the Continent, forbid marriage unless the parties can show that they have the means of supporting a family, do not exceed the legitimate powers of the state : and whether such laws be expedient or not (a question mainly dependent on local circumstances and feelings), they are not objectionable as violations of liberty.
Página 47 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Página 48 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock ; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society ; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Página 27 - We may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please ; we may call it by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence ; but some degree and some kind of it are inseparable from the very nature of the constitution, and necessary to the preservation of our mixed government.
Página 71 - Je suis fils de Brutus, et je porte en mon coeur La liberte gravee et les rois en horreur.
Página 60 - ... which, of all sciences, is the most important to the welfare of nations, — which, of all sciences, most tends to expand and invigorate the mind, — which draws nutriment and ornament from every part of philosophy and literature, and dispenses, in return, nutriment and ornament to all.