The Theory of the StateClarendon Press, 1885 - 518 páginas |
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... Senate ; Kings and Ephors . Artificial character of the Constitution . - Its durability . CHAPTER XVIII . B. The Roman Aristocracy • Comparison of the Spartan and Roman constitutions . - Aristocratic character of the latter is obvious ...
... Senate ; Kings and Ephors . Artificial character of the Constitution . - Its durability . CHAPTER XVIII . B. The Roman Aristocracy • Comparison of the Spartan and Roman constitutions . - Aristocratic character of the latter is obvious ...
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... senate became a senate of all peoples and their kings . The majesty of the Roman People culminated in the majesty of the imperial power . The history of Rome , according to the proud expression of Florus " , became the history of ...
... senate became a senate of all peoples and their kings . The majesty of the Roman People culminated in the majesty of the imperial power . The history of Rome , according to the proud expression of Florus " , became the history of ...
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... Senate . But besides these , the aristocracy was constantly renewed and quickened by the addition of eminent men , distinguished as generals , statesmen , orators , or lawyers , who under the Republic entered the Senate by election to ...
... Senate . But besides these , the aristocracy was constantly renewed and quickened by the addition of eminent men , distinguished as generals , statesmen , orators , or lawyers , who under the Republic entered the Senate by election to ...
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... Senate of the incapable members thrust upon it by the confusions of the civil wars , and to fill up the vacancies by careful nominations . He recommends him to reject no one on the score of poverty , but rather to supply poor and ...
... Senate of the incapable members thrust upon it by the confusions of the civil wars , and to fill up the vacancies by careful nominations . He recommends him to reject no one on the score of poverty , but rather to supply poor and ...
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... Senator , which Napoleon III adopted in his con- stitution , was a step towards it , but this attempt ended with the fall of the second empire . Since then the French nobility has only been so far restored that the old titles have been ...
... Senator , which Napoleon III adopted in his con- stitution , was a step towards it , but this attempt ended with the fall of the second empire . Since then the French nobility has only been so far restored that the old titles have been ...
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Página 429 - You will observe, that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 429 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Página 476 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 429 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres and our altars.
Página 68 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 331 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Página 429 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 474 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Página 429 - Thus by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.