On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1853 - Democracy |
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... rule of accidentally dominating par- ties , which do not even necessarily consist of the majorities . For it is a truth that that which is called the majority in uninstitutional countries , which struggle nevertheless for liberty , is ...
... rule of accidentally dominating par- ties , which do not even necessarily consist of the majorities . For it is a truth that that which is called the majority in uninstitutional countries , which struggle nevertheless for liberty , is ...
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... rule it with his army , mentions twice the love of his country's institutions , which induced him to decline a ruler's chaplet.2 2 General Scott has given an account of this remarkable affair in some remarks he made at a public dinner ...
... rule it with his army , mentions twice the love of his country's institutions , which induced him to decline a ruler's chaplet.2 2 General Scott has given an account of this remarkable affair in some remarks he made at a public dinner ...
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... rule of action ; and it becomes a triumph of reason and freedom when self - directing obedience is thus paid to laws which the obeyer considers erroneous , yet knows to be the laws of the land , rules of action legitimately pre- scribed ...
... rule of action ; and it becomes a triumph of reason and freedom when self - directing obedience is thus paid to laws which the obeyer considers erroneous , yet knows to be the laws of the land , rules of action legitimately pre- scribed ...
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... rules of the English service permitted the duke's suspending any officer and sending him back to England . The duke had used this power during the war in Spain , when disobedience showed itself among the higher officers . Sir Robert ...
... rules of the English service permitted the duke's suspending any officer and sending him back to England . The duke had used this power during the war in Spain , when disobedience showed itself among the higher officers . Sir Robert ...
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... rule of accidentally dominating par- ties , which do not even necessarily consist of the majorities . For it is a truth that that which is called the majority in uninstitutional countries , which struggle nevertheless for liberty , is ...
... rule of accidentally dominating par- ties , which do not even necessarily consist of the majorities . For it is a truth that that which is called the majority in uninstitutional countries , which struggle nevertheless for liberty , is ...
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Page 120 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 132 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 131 - ... absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court, to be appointed in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Page 131 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 127 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 132 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 103 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 120 - That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.
Page 120 - ... principal persons of the commons) cause letters to be written to the lords spiritual and temporal, being Protestants; and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs and Cinque ports for the choosing of such persons to represent them, as were of right to be sent to parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster...
Page 121 - To which Demand of their Rights they are particularly encouraged by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full Redress and Remedy therein.