Essays on Human Rights and Their Political Guaranties, 1–6. numberGreeley & McElrath, 1845 - 219 pages |
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... faculties of Mankind considered in reference to the Social State . - The Argument . - Right to live in Society inferred . - And such being the right of mankind , the State cannot require the surrender of any Natural Rights from the ...
... faculties of Mankind considered in reference to the Social State . - The Argument . - Right to live in Society inferred . - And such being the right of mankind , the State cannot require the surrender of any Natural Rights from the ...
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... faculties in reference to the acquisition of Property . - Inequality of Men's Estates the result of their mental constitution . - The laws ought not to inter- fere to retard or benefit any man in the acquisition of Wealth . They can ...
... faculties in reference to the acquisition of Property . - Inequality of Men's Estates the result of their mental constitution . - The laws ought not to inter- fere to retard or benefit any man in the acquisition of Wealth . They can ...
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... faculties for the attainment of happiness , and invited their activity by surrounding them with the means of em- ployment and gratification , human wisdom has but one work to perform , and that is , to reduce the means of happiness to ...
... faculties for the attainment of happiness , and invited their activity by surrounding them with the means of em- ployment and gratification , human wisdom has but one work to perform , and that is , to reduce the means of happiness to ...
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... faculties which inevitably tend to high civilization and improvement . A faculty improved is still the same faculty . A sentiment enlightened does not lose its original character . But if we need to see man in a primitive state in order ...
... faculties which inevitably tend to high civilization and improvement . A faculty improved is still the same faculty . A sentiment enlightened does not lose its original character . But if we need to see man in a primitive state in order ...
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... faculties and dispositions of the human mind . These conclusions are not derived from an examination of any peculiar people . All human kind have passed under their observation - from the rude Tartar to the most enlight- ened European ...
... faculties and dispositions of the human mind . These conclusions are not derived from an examination of any peculiar people . All human kind have passed under their observation - from the rude Tartar to the most enlight- ened European ...
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Page 29 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 84 - AND WHEREAS the ministers of the gospel, are by their profession dedicated to the service of God and the cure of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their function; therefore no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding any civil or military office or place, within this State.
Page 163 - Yet the lower rank of people, who were always fond of the old common law, still claim and exert their ancient privilege: and the courts of law will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehaviour.
Page 77 - That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the Truth of the Protestant Religion, or the Divine Authority either of the Old or New Testament, or who shall hold Religious Principles incompatible with the Freedom and Safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any Office or Place of Trust or Profit in the Civil Department, within this State.
Page 96 - No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it, at such election.
Page 29 - WHEREAS, The great precept of nature is conceded to be, that "man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such...
Page 9 - Those rights then which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are ; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.
Page 77 - New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.
Page 86 - God, and the care of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions : therefore, no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall, at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding any civil or military office or place within this State.
Page 96 - ... single object or work, to be distinctly specified therein, which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest of such debt or liability as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt or liability within twenty years from the time of the contracting thereof...