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As in religion , the written word of God , which , from its divine inspiration , must
essentially bear a determined and unequivocal meaning , is in disputes and
differences often resorted to , and modified by the appellants to its authority , so
as to ...
As in religion , the written word of God , which , from its divine inspiration , must
essentially bear a determined and unequivocal meaning , is in disputes and
differences often resorted to , and modified by the appellants to its authority , so
as to ...
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ciety the same duals Every individual human being has not the riches and only a
right , but is under an indispensible duties of the for obligation to adopt that
religious cult or as of indivi . mode of worship , which , after due deliberation , in
the ...
ciety the same duals Every individual human being has not the riches and only a
right , but is under an indispensible duties of the for obligation to adopt that
religious cult or as of indivi . mode of worship , which , after due deliberation , in
the ...
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what religion it should establish , it continues so still . ” And the same learned
author , who is remarkable for perspicuity and strength of argument , further says ;
* “ Nothing , therefore , can be more unjust or impertinent , than those
suggestions ...
what religion it should establish , it continues so still . ” And the same learned
author , who is remarkable for perspicuity and strength of argument , further says ;
* “ Nothing , therefore , can be more unjust or impertinent , than those
suggestions ...
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words , of making it the established religion of the country ; for the adoption of a
particular church eitablishment by the ... or ordinance whatsoever ; but * “ a
religious establishment is no part of Christianity , it is only the means of
inculcating it .
words , of making it the established religion of the country ; for the adoption of a
particular church eitablishment by the ... or ordinance whatsoever ; but * “ a
religious establishment is no part of Christianity , it is only the means of
inculcating it .
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Was it of no advantage for subjects to have religion , it would still be of some , if
princes had it , and if they whitened with foam the only rein , which can retain
those , who fear not human laws . A prince , who loves and fears religion , is a
lion ...
Was it of no advantage for subjects to have religion , it would still be of some , if
princes had it , and if they whitened with foam the only rein , which can retain
those , who fear not human laws . A prince , who loves and fears religion , is a
lion ...
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Page 484 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Page 35 - For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority...
Page 18 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Page 148 - ... and then it is an oligarchy. Or else into the hands of one man, and then it is a monarchy; if to him and his heirs, it is...
Page 59 - Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other men's actions must, as well as their own and other men's actions, be conformable to the law of nature — ie, to the will of God, of which that is a declaration; and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good or valid against it.
Page 18 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 499 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 34 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, -without his own consent.
Page 448 - It can regulate or new model the succession to the crown ; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII. and William III. It can alter the...
Page 167 - I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present king William; to make good his title in the consent of the people ; which being the only one of all lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom ; and to justify to the world the people of England, whose love of their just and natural rights, with their resolution to preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin.
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| Title | Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Page 732 Eighteenth century collections online HeinOnline: World constitutions illustrated Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Francis Plowden |
| Author | Francis Plowden |
| Publisher | E. and R. Brooke, 1792 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 620 pages |
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