The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750 - Jurisprudence |
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... The fame Subject continued , 347 348 349 Chap . XV . Precautions to be used in moderate Governments , 350 Chap . XVI . Regulations between Mafters and Slaves , 352 Chap : 354 Chap : XVII . of Infranchisement , Chap . CONTENT S.
... The fame Subject continued , 347 348 349 Chap . XV . Precautions to be used in moderate Governments , 350 Chap . XVI . Regulations between Mafters and Slaves , 352 Chap : 354 Chap : XVII . of Infranchisement , Chap . CONTENT S.
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... regulation , which had lic.book 8 . been received as a law by the Athenians . At Athens there was a law whofe fpirit , in my opinion , has not been hitherto rightly understood . It was lawful to marry a fifter only by the fa- ther's ...
... regulation , which had lic.book 8 . been received as a law by the Athenians . At Athens there was a law whofe fpirit , in my opinion , has not been hitherto rightly understood . It was lawful to marry a fifter only by the fa- ther's ...
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... regulation of kind ever took place in any re- public . It lays the citizens under fuch hard and odious conditions , as would make them deteft the very equality which they defigned to establish . It is proper fometimes that the laws ...
... regulation of kind ever took place in any re- public . It lays the citizens under fuch hard and odious conditions , as would make them deteft the very equality which they defigned to establish . It is proper fometimes that the laws ...
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... regulation of this nature would be impracticable , dangerous , and even fubverfive of the conftitution . We are not always obliged to pro- ceed to extremes . If it appears that this divifion of lands , which was defigned to preferve the ...
... regulation of this nature would be impracticable , dangerous , and even fubverfive of the conftitution . We are not always obliged to pro- ceed to extremes . If it appears that this divifion of lands , which was defigned to preferve the ...
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... regulations Chap . 8 . fhould be made ; but no confifcations , no agra- rian laws , no expunging of debts , these are things that are productive of infinite mifchief . The laws ought to abolish the right of primo- geniture among the ...
... regulations Chap . 8 . fhould be made ; but no confifcations , no agra- rian laws , no expunging of debts , these are things that are productive of infinite mifchief . The laws ought to abolish the right of primo- geniture among the ...
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Page 216 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control ; for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Page 216 - 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 7 - That different nations ought, in time of peace, to do one another all the good they can, and, in time of war, as little harm as possible, without prejudice to their own real interests.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 213 - In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Page 46 - Honor, therefore, has its supreme laws, to which education is obliged to conform. The chief of these are, that we are permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. " The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never...
Page 426 - Hence it follows that when these manners and customs are to be changed, it ought not to be done by laws; this would have too much the air of tyranny: it would be better to change them by introducing other manners and other customs.
Page 223 - ... it once corrupted would no longer expect any good from its laws; and of course they would either become desperate or fall into a state of indolence.
Page 421 - ... 9. Of the Vanity and Pride of Nations. Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, as laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything— in fine, the destruction of the...