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... expression of Public Law is to be found in the Constitution or enacted positive laws ( die Verfassung : das Gesetz ) : the clearest and most vivid manifestation of Politics is the practical conduct or guidance of the State itself , viz ...
... expression of Public Law is to be found in the Constitution or enacted positive laws ( die Verfassung : das Gesetz ) : the clearest and most vivid manifestation of Politics is the practical conduct or guidance of the State itself , viz ...
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... expression which tween has been sometimes misunderstood , sometimes misused , but rulers and subjects ; which in itself is neither hateful nor slavish - between sove- reign and subjects . This distinction appears in the most manifold ...
... expression which tween has been sometimes misunderstood , sometimes misused , but rulers and subjects ; which in itself is neither hateful nor slavish - between sove- reign and subjects . This distinction appears in the most manifold ...
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... expressing the will of the State in laws , with a head who governs , with all sorts of offices and magistracies for admin- istration , with courts to exercise public justice , with institu- tions of all kinds to provide for the ...
... expressing the will of the State in laws , with a head who governs , with all sorts of offices and magistracies for admin- istration , with courts to exercise public justice , with institu- tions of all kinds to provide for the ...
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... expression , civitas , refers like- wise to the citizenship of a city as the nucleus of the State , but has more of a personal character than the Greek word , and is better adapted to take up into itself greater masses of people . It ...
... expression , civitas , refers like- wise to the citizenship of a city as the nucleus of the State , but has more of a personal character than the Greek word , and is better adapted to take up into itself greater masses of people . It ...
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... expression , L'état c'est l'homme , does not merely signify the State is Man in general ' ( der Mensch im Groszen ) but the State is the man , the husband ( der Mann ) in general , ' as the Church represents the womanly nature in ...
... expression , L'état c'est l'homme , does not merely signify the State is Man in general ' ( der Mensch im Groszen ) but the State is the man , the husband ( der Mann ) in general , ' as the Church represents the womanly nature in ...
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Page 440 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 490 - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal, against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve...
Page 68 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the State ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Page 474 - ... The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Page 427 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 472 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Page 427 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 427 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Page 427 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres and our altars.
Page 68 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.