The Spirit of Laws, Volumes 1-2J. Collingwood, 1823 - Jurisprudence |
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... appear still more surprising , when it is known that he was almost wholly deprived of sight , and obliged to make use ... appears in his maxims to prevent democracy from falling into * The reigning king of Sardinia . that licentiousness ...
... appear still more surprising , when it is known that he was almost wholly deprived of sight , and obliged to make use ... appears in his maxims to prevent democracy from falling into * The reigning king of Sardinia . that licentiousness ...
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... appear throughout the whole of it . The learned president could easily have rendered his adversary odious ; but he chose rather to make him ridiculous . What adds to the value of this piece , is , that the author , without thinking of ...
... appear throughout the whole of it . The learned president could easily have rendered his adversary odious ; but he chose rather to make him ridiculous . What adds to the value of this piece , is , that the author , without thinking of ...
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... appears in a mind uncorrupted by the commerce of the world . He concludes the preface , in which he represents the work as a translation from the Greek , with these words : " If grave people should desire of me a less frivolous ...
... appears in a mind uncorrupted by the commerce of the world . He concludes the preface , in which he represents the work as a translation from the Greek , with these words : " If grave people should desire of me a less frivolous ...
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... appears to avenge it . In a word , after having treated in particular of the different kinds of laws which men can have , there remains nothing more than to compare them all together , and to examine them in their relation with those ...
... appears to avenge it . In a word , after having treated in particular of the different kinds of laws which men can have , there remains nothing more than to compare them all together , and to examine them in their relation with those ...
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... appear to be in opposition to it . Such was the famous law of Solon , by which all who should not take some part in the public tumults were declared infamous . It prevented seditions , or rendered them useful by forcing all the members ...
... appear to be in opposition to it . Such was the famous law of Solon , by which all who should not take some part in the public tumults were declared infamous . It prevented seditions , or rendered them useful by forcing all the members ...
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Page 154 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 199 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 319 - The enjoyment of liberty, and even its support and preservation, consists in every man's being allowed to speak his thoughts, and lay open his sentiments.
Page 129 - Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states, the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side, and not on the other; the confederacy may be dissolved, and the confederates preserve their sovereignty. "As this government is composed of...
Page 160 - But as we have already observed, the national judges are no more than the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, mere passive beings, incapable of moderating either its force or rigour.
Page 154 - There would be an end of everything, were the same man or the same body, whether of the nobles or of the people, to exercise those three powers, that of enacting laws, that of executing the public resolutions, and of trying the causes of individuals.
Page 159 - But if the legislative power in a free state has no right to stay the executive, it has a right and ought to have the means of examining in what manner its laws have been executed...
Page 129 - If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have an equal authority and credit in all the confederate states. Were he to have too great influence over one, this would alarm the rest.
Page 122 - It is natural to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise it cannot long subsist.
Page 128 - It is very probable" (says he*) "that mankind would have been obliged at length to live constantly under the government of a SINGLE PERSON, had they not contrived a kind of constitution that has all the internal advantages of a republican, together with the external force of a monarchical, government.