 | ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. 11. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks...can never be restrained but by despotic governments. 12. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper,... | |
 | Sir George Campbell - Social Science - 1879 - 454 pages
...described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted. 14. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks...can never be restrained but by despotic governments, and any citizen may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for... | |
 | North Carolina - Law - 1881 - 998 pages
...best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable. ~- SEC. 20. The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and therefore ought never to be restrained, but every individual shall be held responsible for the abuse... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...to any other, and ought to be held sacred. 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. 13. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community " should have the right of suffrage. The freedom of the press is " one of the great bulwarks...never be restrained but by despotic governments." The natural defense of a state is " a well-regulated militia ; " standing armies are " dangerous to... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...ancient trial by jury of twelve men is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. XII. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks...can never be restrained but by despotic governments. XIII. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper,... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...free institutions. The bill of rights accompanying the constitution of Virginia (1776) declared " that the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks...never be restrained but by despotic governments." The first constitution of Vermont (1777) declared that " The people have a right to freedom of speech... | |
 | Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, Thomas W. Handford - 1884 - 564 pages
...In all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power. Freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained, but by the despotic governments. And yet again : in the " Declaration of Rights " in Massachusetts, in 1780,... | |
 | United States census office - 1884 - 498 pages
...phraseology remains in the constitution of 18G8. The North Carolina constitution (1776) declared ''that the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and therefore ought never to be restrained". The constitution of 1808 retained this phraseology, with the... | |
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That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. 
