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... majority of rude tribes now in existence . By regarding and habitually treat- ing some actions and some institutions as right , and others as wrong , we make a considerable step towards rendering the former attainable , since it is of ...
... majority of rude tribes now in existence . By regarding and habitually treat- ing some actions and some institutions as right , and others as wrong , we make a considerable step towards rendering the former attainable , since it is of ...
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... majority ; a rule which evidently lies at the foundation of free government . The difficulty is in truth no greater in the case of communities than of individuals , each of whom has conflicting and contradictory interests , opinions ...
... majority ; a rule which evidently lies at the foundation of free government . The difficulty is in truth no greater in the case of communities than of individuals , each of whom has conflicting and contradictory interests , opinions ...
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... majority . If when the vote is taken , either among the citizens at large , or in the legislative body which represents them , the will of the greater number did not prevail , the minority would be at liberty to act without rule , not ...
... majority . If when the vote is taken , either among the citizens at large , or in the legislative body which represents them , the will of the greater number did not prevail , the minority would be at liberty to act without rule , not ...
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... majority , is the only way to give consistency to the last , and of re- ducing to a system the complicated concerns of society . The keen and searching inquisition which , in a democratic republic , is made into all the schemes of ...
... majority , is the only way to give consistency to the last , and of re- ducing to a system the complicated concerns of society . The keen and searching inquisition which , in a democratic republic , is made into all the schemes of ...
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... majority , or some one of the artificial forms of govern- ment ; and hereditary monarchy and aristocracy do not properly represent either a majority or minority . I speak now of pure monarchy and aristocracy . For by a partial ...
... majority , or some one of the artificial forms of govern- ment ; and hereditary monarchy and aristocracy do not properly represent either a majority or minority . I speak now of pure monarchy and aristocracy . For by a partial ...
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Page 241 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 333 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Page 173 - By the 8th Section of the 1st Article of the Constitution of the United States, the Congress has power : — 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States ; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; 2.
Page 333 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 276 - The substantive civil law, in the instances which we have given, is different in different countries, and in the same country at different times. As the substantive civil law varies, the penal law, which is added as a guard to the substantive civil law, must vary also.
Page 483 - Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 8 - Weights and Measures, p. 237); and the country which could bear so large an exportation, must already have attained an improved state of agriculture.
Page 333 - ... two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature...
Page 483 - That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness...
Page 8 - The spirit of improvement had passed the Alps, and been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations. York was the seat of government; London was already enriched by commerce; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters.