On Civil Liberty and Self-government, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1853 - 552 pages |
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... used , there is now always meant a high degree of mutually guaranteed protection against inter- ference with the interests and rights , held dear and important by large classes of civilized men , or by 8 ON CIVIL LIBERTY.
... used , there is now always meant a high degree of mutually guaranteed protection against inter- ference with the interests and rights , held dear and important by large classes of civilized men , or by 8 ON CIVIL LIBERTY.
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... interests and rights ? Who are civilized men ? In what does that share consist ? Which are the men that are conscious of their rights What is the destiny of humanity ? Who are the large classes ? I mean by civil liberty that liberty ...
... interests and rights ? Who are civilized men ? In what does that share consist ? Which are the men that are conscious of their rights What is the destiny of humanity ? Who are the large classes ? I mean by civil liberty that liberty ...
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... again of late , I don't know . Nor can it be of very great importance in a country , in which the " state of siege " and martial law seem to be permanent . cr interest in the punishment itself . A penal case has AND SELF - GOVERNMENT . 55.
... again of late , I don't know . Nor can it be of very great importance in a country , in which the " state of siege " and martial law seem to be permanent . cr interest in the punishment itself . A penal case has AND SELF - GOVERNMENT . 55.
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Francis Lieber. interest in the punishment itself . A penal case has attraction for them so long as it is undecided ; but what imprisonment follows , if imprisonment has been awarded , interests them little . Very few lawyers have taken ...
Francis Lieber. interest in the punishment itself . A penal case has attraction for them so long as it is undecided ; but what imprisonment follows , if imprisonment has been awarded , interests them little . Very few lawyers have taken ...
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... interest once collected , and to restrict the paper to the merest outlines , that it would be impossible to do any justice to the subject without allowing to that particular portion a disproportionally large place . I decided ...
... interest once collected , and to restrict the paper to the merest outlines , that it would be impossible to do any justice to the subject without allowing to that particular portion a disproportionally large place . I decided ...
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Page 454 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 453 - ... same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different states.
Page 467 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 452 - ... the United States in congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States in congress assembled. AET. IX. The United States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 467 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Page 449 - If any person, guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 446 - 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 459 - Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. SECTION 4. >The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.
Page 449 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
Page 439 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.