On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1853 - 552 páginas |
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... desire to establish or extend freedom among the political societies of mankind . At no previous period , ancient or modern , has this impulse been felt at once so strongly and by such extensive numbers . The love of civil liberty is so ...
... desire to establish or extend freedom among the political societies of mankind . At no previous period , ancient or modern , has this impulse been felt at once so strongly and by such extensive numbers . The love of civil liberty is so ...
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... desire freedom of action . We have this desire , in some degree , even in common with the animal , where it manifests itself at least as a desire for freedom of motion . The fiercest despot desires liberty as much as the most ardent ...
... desire freedom of action . We have this desire , in some degree , even in common with the animal , where it manifests itself at least as a desire for freedom of motion . The fiercest despot desires liberty as much as the most ardent ...
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... desire he feels of manifesting and revealing ideas and aspirations in the material before him . Civil liberty is the idea of liberty in connexion with politics , and must necessarily partake of the character , or intertwine itself with ...
... desire he feels of manifesting and revealing ideas and aspirations in the material before him . Civil liberty is the idea of liberty in connexion with politics , and must necessarily partake of the character , or intertwine itself with ...
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... desire of protecting them . These two facts have materially influenced the deve- lopment of modern liberty , that liberty which we call our own . The progress we value so much was greatly retarded on the Continent by an historical ...
... desire of protecting them . These two facts have materially influenced the deve- lopment of modern liberty , that liberty which we call our own . The progress we value so much was greatly retarded on the Continent by an historical ...
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... desire of possessing a well - guaran- teed political liberty and enjoyment of free action , was kindled on the European Continent by the example of England . The course which we observe in France , from Montesquieu , who , in his ...
... desire of possessing a well - guaran- teed political liberty and enjoyment of free action , was kindled on the European Continent by the example of England . The course which we observe in France , from Montesquieu , who , in his ...
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Página 454 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Página 453 - ... same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different states.
Página 467 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Página 452 - ... the United States in congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States in congress assembled. AET. IX. The United States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Página 467 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Página 449 - If any person, guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Página 446 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Página 459 - Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. SECTION 4. >The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.
Página 449 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
Página 439 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.