 | Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson - Sermons, English - 1924 - 1102 pages
...less than exists inmodern democratic states. Thus Montesquieu, quoting Cicero, says: "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a...citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would be possessed of the same power." This may... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...ought not to desire. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow citizens would enjoy the Same power." M Yet,... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 530 pages
...ought not to will. We must ba.\e continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...citizen could do what they forbid, he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power." Again, the same author... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Debates and debating - 1927 - 206 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power. (Chap.... | |
 | Law - 1923 - 454 pages
...state was instituted. Montesquieu points out in his ' ' Spirit of Laws" that political liberty "is the right of doing whatever the laws permit; and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer have liberty, since the rest would have the same power." Thus, to him, paradoxical as it... | |
 | Montesquieu - Law - 1977 - 522 pages
...not to will. [2] We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possest of liberty, because all his fellow citizens would have the same power. THE SAME... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 302 pages
...subscription price was raised to $4. In 1797 the heading contained this quotation from Montesquieu: ' ' Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit...citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all of his fellow citizens would have the same power." pher, in the issue... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 304 pages
...subscription price was raised to $4. In 1797 the heading contained this quotation from Montesquieu : ' ' Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit...citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all of his fellow citizens would have the same power." Substituted for... | |
 | David K. Nichols - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 192 pages
...liberty held up by Montesquieu." A man cannot be free without law. Montesquieu explains: "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all of his fellow-citizens would have the same power." M... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit." The whole of this taken together forms, in my opinion, the just idea of political liberty . . . any... | |
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We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his... 
