The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island:: With Reflections on Its Situation, Settlements, Inhabitants, Climate, Products, Commerce, Laws, and Government. In Three Volumes. Illustrated with Copper Plates..

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T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street., 1774 - Jamaica

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Page 185 - ... both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits ; while the whole is prevented from separation, and artificially connected together by the mixed nature of the crown, which is a part of the legislative, and the sole executive magistrate.
Page 197 - ... to make, constitute, and ordain laws, statutes and ordinances, for the public peace, welfare, and good government...
Page 315 - ... and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft.
Page 187 - The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said we will submit to rules, and be governed by laws made by such men, and in such forms...
Page 47 - The governor is invested with a great deal of power; which, however, on the side of the crown, is checked by the intendant, who has the care of the king's rights, and whatever relates to the revenue ; and on the...
Page 465 - The Trade of the Kingdom languished under these Impediments. Few People cared to encounter the Difficulties, which attended the Conveyance of Goods from the Places where they were manufactured, to the Markets, where they were to be disposed of. And those, who undertook this Business, were only enabled to carry it on in the WintrySeason on Horseback, or, if in Carriages, by winding Deviations from the regular Tracks, which the open country afforded them an Opportunity of making.
Page 187 - The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
Page 256 - ... and debauchedness, profaneness and wickedness, commonly practised amongst the Army, we can not only bewail the same, but desire that all with you may do so; and that a very special regard may be had so to govern, for time to come, as that all manner of vice may be thoroughly discountenanced, and severely punished; and that such a frame of government may be exercised that virtue and godliness may receive due encouragement.
Page 4 - ... and tyranny has not only been defended, but even carefled and rewarded, in proportion as it has been uncommonly daring and enormous. The tyrant had only to call the ftruggles of the opprefled by the name of fattion ', and, under the madow of this word, he could conceal their wounds, and his own guilt.
Page 306 - ... tis always to be understood that the freedom of Navigation ought by no manner of means to be interrupted, when there is nothing committed contrary to the true sense and meaning of these Articles.

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