 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...difpofition of things power mould be a chec k to power. A government may be fo conftituted, as no man mail be compelled to do things to which the law does not...forced to abftain from things which the law permits. CHAP. V. Of the end or view of different Governments. THO' all governments have the fame general end,... | |
 | Europe - 1775 - 454 pages
...the very nature of things, power Ihould be a check to power. A government may be fo- conftituted, as no man fhall be compelled to do things to which the...governments have the fame general end, which is that of prefervatiorv, yet each has another particular object. Increafe of dominion was the object of Rome... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1793 - 412 pages
...A government may be fo conftituted, as no man fhall be compelled to do things to which the lawdoes not oblige him. nor forced to abftain from things which the law permits. CHAP. V. Of the end or -view of different governments, ' I 'HOUGH all governments have the fame general... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...very difpofition of things power fhould be a check to power. A government may be fo conftituted, as no man fhall be compelled to do things to which the...forced to abftain from things which the law permits. £T a CHAP. s. CHAP. V. Of the End or Vlew of different Governments. 1 HOUGH all governments have the... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...nature of things, power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits. CHAP. V. Of the End or View of different Governments. THOUGH... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...check to power. A governIj j ment may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to •y \\ r do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to L-abstain from things which the law permits. 5. — Of the End or View or different Governments Though... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 pages
...of things that power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits. 5. Of the End or View of Different Governments. Though all... | |
 | Clarence Morris - Law - 1971 - 588 pages
...nature of things, power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits. . . . CHAPTER VI Of the Constitution of England . . . The... | |
 | Montesquieu - Law - 1977 - 522 pages
...disposition of things power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits. OF THE END OR VIEW OF DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS [Chapter 5]... | |
 | Robert Anchor - History - 1979 - 196 pages
...separate executive, and enforced by an independent judiciary. For only under such a government is no man "compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits" (Bk. XI, chap. 4). The free human being envisaged by Montesquieu... | |
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To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from... 
