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... regarded as It does not political sciences , are not really such , although they relate to certain the State and must of course be taken account of as auxiliary , sciences Such are : - which are auxiliary ( a ) The History of a people ...
... regarded as It does not political sciences , are not really such , although they relate to certain the State and must of course be taken account of as auxiliary , sciences Such are : - which are auxiliary ( a ) The History of a people ...
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... regarded as the political end of mankind . istics of all States : If we consider the great number of States which history Character- presents to us , we become aware at once of certain common characteristics of all States ; others are ...
... regarded as the political end of mankind . istics of all States : If we consider the great number of States which history Character- presents to us , we become aware at once of certain common characteristics of all States ; others are ...
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... regarded as one of the most honourable duties of gifted men . The joys and sorrows of the State have always been shared by all its citizens . The whole great idea of Fatherland and love of country would be inconceiv- able if the State ...
... regarded as one of the most honourable duties of gifted men . The joys and sorrows of the State have always been shared by all its citizens . The whole great idea of Fatherland and love of country would be inconceiv- able if the State ...
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... regarded as merely bodily was put in an inferior position . The elevation of the idea of the State above the narrow limits of nationality was an insufficient compensation . Not humanity , but Christendom was to be organised and governed ...
... regarded as merely bodily was put in an inferior position . The elevation of the idea of the State above the narrow limits of nationality was an insufficient compensation . Not humanity , but Christendom was to be organised and governed ...
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... regarded as the hereditary property of a family , and public duties were treated as burdens upon land . The whole feudal law and the patrimonial State in all its aspects suffer from this admixture . Roman Public Law only served as a ...
... regarded as the hereditary property of a family , and public duties were treated as burdens upon land . The whole feudal law and the patrimonial State in all its aspects suffer from this admixture . Roman Public Law only served as a ...
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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.