 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...status of these natural rights, queried Burke on another occasion, if they are constitutionalized and The answer, he said, is that "they are in a still better condition: they partake not only of the sanctity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 páginas
...— that is to say, the natural rights of mankind — are indeed sacred things ; and if any public measure is proved mischievously to affect them, the...declared by express covenants, if they are clearly denned and secured against chicane, against power and authority, by written instruments and positive... | |
 | 1908 - 324 páginas
...against a whole people. The natural rights of mankind are indeed sacred things, and, if any public measure is proved mischievously to affect them, the...even if no charter at all could be set up against it. Only a sovereign reason, paramount to all forms of legislation and administration, should dictate."... | |
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The rights of men — that is to say, the natural rights of mankind — are indeed sacred things ; and if any public measure is proved mischievously to affect, them, the objection ought to be fatal to that measure, even if no charter at all could be set... 
