The constitution of England, with life and notes by J. Macgregor |
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... citizen called upon to defend , in the sphere where fortune has placed him , his own rights , and those of the nation itself , would dread the consequence of even a lawful conduct , and , though encouraged by the law , might desert ...
... citizen called upon to defend , in the sphere where fortune has placed him , his own rights , and those of the nation itself , would dread the consequence of even a lawful conduct , and , though encouraged by the law , might desert ...
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... citizen . But when , at length , those exterior motives cease , and the passions , and even the virtues , which they excited , are thus reduced to a state of inaction , the people turn their eyes back towards the interior of the ...
... citizen . But when , at length , those exterior motives cease , and the passions , and even the virtues , which they excited , are thus reduced to a state of inaction , the people turn their eyes back towards the interior of the ...
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... citizens , they avail themselves of the general disposition of the people , to promote their private views : the legislative power is thenceforth continually in motion ; and as it is badly informed , and falsely directed , almost every ...
... citizens , they avail themselves of the general disposition of the people , to promote their private views : the legislative power is thenceforth continually in motion ; and as it is badly informed , and falsely directed , almost every ...
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... citizen of Florence addressed once to the senate : the reader will find in it a kind of abridged story of all republics ; at least of those which , by the share allowed to the people in the government , deserved that name , and which ...
... citizen of Florence addressed once to the senate : the reader will find in it a kind of abridged story of all republics ; at least of those which , by the share allowed to the people in the government , deserved that name , and which ...
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... citizen to rise to any dangerous greatness . And to begin with an advantage by which the people easily suffer themselves to be influenced , I mean that of birth , it is impossible for it to produce in England effects in any degree ...
... citizen to rise to any dangerous greatness . And to begin with an advantage by which the people easily suffer themselves to be influenced , I mean that of birth , it is impossible for it to produce in England effects in any degree ...
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Сторінка 76 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Сторінка 355 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Сторінка 353 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
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Сторінка 352 - The power and jurisdiction of parliament, says Sir Edward Coke, is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined. either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Сторінка 76 - The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : so help me God :" and then shall kiss the book (12).
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Сторінка 356 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
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