 The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract.  On National Government - Page 116by George Ensor - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 824 pages
...conftitution of a country being once fettled upon fome compact, tacit or expreffed, there is no power exifting of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the confent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 232 pages
...conftituticn of a country being once fettled upon fome compact, tacit or exprefied, there is no power exifting of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the confent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people,... | |
 | George Rous - 1791 - 150 pages
...a country being once " fettled upon fome compact, tacit or ex" prefled, there is no power exifting of ** force to alter it without the breach of ) "•"the covenant, or, the confent of all parties. " Such is the nature of a contract." And in another part of your work you inform... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Anglo-French War, 1793-1802 - 1794 - 466 pages
...country being once '" fettled upon fome compact, tacit or ex.** prefled, there is no power exifting of ** force to alter it without the breach of ** the covenant, or the confent of all parties. •*4 Such' is the nature of a contract." And in another part of your^work... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...of a country -being once fettled upon fome compact, tacit or expreffed, there is no power exifting of force to alter It., without the breach of the covenant, or the confent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled upon...of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people, whatever their infamous... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled upon...of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people, whatever their infamous... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...duty, in which I agree with him, he in a subsequent sentence, maintains the same doctrine; thus : " The constitution of a country being once settled upon...of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract." So that if reason, or even revelation itself, were now to demonstrate... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...duty, in which I agree with him, he in a subsequent sentence, maintains the same doctrine ; thus : " The constitution of a country being once settled upon...of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract." So that if reason, or even revelation itself, were now to demonstrate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled upon...of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract. And the votes of a majority of the people, whatever their infamous... | |
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