Politics: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Constitutional LawG.P. Putnam's sons, 1883 - 305 páginas |
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Página 230 - ' the said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 220 - must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 201 - à la puissance exécutrice, il n'ya point de liberté, parce qu'on peut craindre que le même monarque ou le même sénat ne fasse des lois tyranniques pour les exécuter tyranniquement. Il n'ya point encore de liberté si la puissance de juger n'est pas séparée
Página 201 - seroit législateur. Si elle étoit jointe à la puissance exécutrice, le juge pourroit avoir la force d'un oppresseur. Tout seroit perdu si le même homme, ou le même corps des principaux, ou des nobles, ou du peuple, exercoient ces trois pouvoirs : celui de faire des lois, celui d'exécuter les résolutions publiques, et celui de juger les crimes ou les différends des
Página 252 - To establish post-offices and post-roads." " To declare war." "To raise and support armies." " To provide and maintain a navy." " To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union;
Página 244 - before the people, found it necessary to urge. That principle is now universally admitted. But the question respecting the extent of the powers actually granted is perpetually arising, and will probably continue to arise, as long as Our
Página 30 - political functions. Nor is there any of those subversions of feeling, which we term emphatically revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when some other principle— such as that, for instance, of local contiguity—establishes itself for the first time as the basis of common political action
Página 50 - When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to a person, or an assemblage of persons, of a known and certain description (whom we may call governor or governors), such persons altogether (subjects and governors) are said to be in a state of political society
Página 117 - agreements as shall be made for public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a township, and such others whom they shall admit unto
Página 242 - Constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy, or compact between the people of the several states in their sovereign capacities ; but a government proper, founded on the adoption of the people, and creating direct relations between itself and individuals. 2.