 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1830 - 254 pages
...price of so valuable a purchase; and, in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws which the community has thought proper to establish J." These rights, then, are antecedent to all law, that is, to all human enactments. Human laws may... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1832 - 312 pages
...would enjoy without the existence of a government. " Political or civil liberty, (says Blackstone,) which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws (and no further) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public." •{•... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...price of so valuable a purchase; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws which the community has thought proper to establish. Those rights which God and nature have established, and are, therefore, called natural rights, —... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...the same power ; and then there would be no security to individuals in any of the enjoyments of life. Political, therefore, or civil liberty, which is that...other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no farther) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. Hence... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 404 pages
...moral obligation. This definition agrees very nearly with the concise definition of Judge Blackstone. " Civil liberty, which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty so far restrained—and no farther—as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public,"... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1849 - 790 pages
...price of so valuable a purchase, and in consideration of receiving the advantage of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws which the community has thought proper to establish." This is laid down as the first principle of their Government, and he would now proceed to that part... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...enjoyments of life. See Mont. Spirit of Laws, lib. II. c. S. Political or civil liberty, therefore, hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previou laws, and no farther, as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. 1 Comm.... | |
 | United States - 1836 - 494 pages
...a distinction without a difference, I refer ^ou to Blackstone, on the same page, wherein he says : "Political, therefore, or civil liberty, which is...other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws (and no further) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public." The meaning... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 pages
...price of so valuable a purchase; and, in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws which the community has thought proper to establish."* These rights, then, are antecedent to all law, that is, to all human enactments. Human laws may take... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...price of so valuable a purchase; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish. And this species of legal obedience and conformity is infinitely more desirable than that wild and... | |
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But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community... 
