On Civil Liberty and Self-government, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1853 - 552 pages |
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... ment . The highest amount of liberty comes to signify the safest guarantees of undisturbed legitimate action , and the most efficient checks against undue interference . * Men , however , do not occupy themselves with that which is ...
... ment . The highest amount of liberty comes to signify the safest guarantees of undisturbed legitimate action , and the most efficient checks against undue interference . * Men , however , do not occupy themselves with that which is ...
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... ment of humanity in this world and for the world to come . There was no sacrifice of individuality to the state too great for the ancients . The greatest political philosophers of antiquity unite in holding up Sparta as the best ...
... ment of humanity in this world and for the world to come . There was no sacrifice of individuality to the state too great for the ancients . The greatest political philosophers of antiquity unite in holding up Sparta as the best ...
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Francis Lieber. It is its direct antagonism to a mere police govern- ment , its bold acknowledgment of individual security opposite to government , it is its close relationship to self- government , which give so much dignity to this gua ...
Francis Lieber. It is its direct antagonism to a mere police govern- ment , its bold acknowledgment of individual security opposite to government , it is its close relationship to self- government , which give so much dignity to this gua ...
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... ment was passed under Charles the Second , and is intended to insure to an arrested person , whether by warrant or on the spot , that , at his demand , he be brought by the person detaining him before a judge , who may liberate him ...
... ment was passed under Charles the Second , and is intended to insure to an arrested person , whether by warrant or on the spot , that , at his demand , he be brought by the person detaining him before a judge , who may liberate him ...
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... ment of which no equivalent in money can be imagined ; for instance , death , or imprisonment for life , and those offences which put the offender into the possession of the sum required for the bail . It has been objected to the bail ...
... ment of which no equivalent in money can be imagined ; for instance , death , or imprisonment for life , and those offences which put the offender into the possession of the sum required for the bail . It has been objected to the bail ...
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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.