The Spirit of Laws, Volumes 1-2J. Collingwood, 1823 - Jurisprudence |
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... cause the citizen pays without perceiving it . An excessive number of troops in time of peace is only a pretence to load the people with taxes , a means of enervating the state , and an instrument of slavery . That administration of the ...
... cause the citizen pays without perceiving it . An excessive number of troops in time of peace is only a pretence to load the people with taxes , a means of enervating the state , and an instrument of slavery . That administration of the ...
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... cause they cannot see the ornaments of magistracy . M. de Montesquieu , to point out by examples the applica- tion of his principles , has chosen two different people , the most celebrated in the world , and those whose history most ...
... cause they cannot see the ornaments of magistracy . M. de Montesquieu , to point out by examples the applica- tion of his principles , has chosen two different people , the most celebrated in the world , and those whose history most ...
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... Cause of the Cor- ruption of the People . 111 5. Of the Corruption of the Principle of Aristocracy ibid . 6. Of the Corruption of the Principle of Monarchy 112 The same Subject continued 7 . 10 . 113 8. Danger of the Corruption of the ...
... Cause of the Cor- ruption of the People . 111 5. Of the Corruption of the Principle of Aristocracy ibid . 6. Of the Corruption of the Principle of Monarchy 112 The same Subject continued 7 . 10 . 113 8. Danger of the Corruption of the ...
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... Cause of the Slavery of Asia , and of the Liberty of Europe . 273 7. Of Africa and America 274 8. Of the Capital of the Empire BOOK XVIII . ibid . Of Laws in the Relation they bear to the Nature of the Soil . 1. How the Nature of the ...
... Cause of the Slavery of Asia , and of the Liberty of Europe . 273 7. Of Africa and America 274 8. Of the Capital of the Empire BOOK XVIII . ibid . Of Laws in the Relation they bear to the Nature of the Soil . 1. How the Nature of the ...
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... cause of its decline . But as this is differently practised in different re- publics , I shall offer here my thoughts concerning this subject . The people's suffrages ought doubtless to be public ; and this should be considered as a ...
... cause of its decline . But as this is differently practised in different re- publics , I shall offer here my thoughts concerning this subject . The people's suffrages ought doubtless to be public ; and this should be considered as a ...
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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.