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Page 78
CelloIS , Wien fame rights and power , when they were left to themselves by their
Roman conquerors , did they divide themselves into an heptarchy , or Saxon
Heptarseven distinct kingdoms , under the Saxons ; and when they had ...
CelloIS , Wien fame rights and power , when they were left to themselves by their
Roman conquerors , did they divide themselves into an heptarchy , or Saxon
Heptarseven distinct kingdoms , under the Saxons ; and when they had ...
Page 247
If we attend to the nature of the complaints , which the kingdom was perpetually
making in the days of popery of the Roman usurpations , we shall find , that they
did not so much respect these usurpations themselves , as the person claiming ...
If we attend to the nature of the complaints , which the kingdom was perpetually
making in the days of popery of the Roman usurpations , we shall find , that they
did not so much respect these usurpations themselves , as the person claiming ...
Page 407
In the mean time the people wearied out by the calamities they had undergone ,
and longing only for repose abhorred even the idea of resistance ; so that the
remains of an almost exterminated nobility beheld themselves left defenceless ,
and ...
In the mean time the people wearied out by the calamities they had undergone ,
and longing only for repose abhorred even the idea of resistance ; so that the
remains of an almost exterminated nobility beheld themselves left defenceless ,
and ...
Page 504
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody , ought not to be
trusted by any body . ” 7 “ By engendering the church with the ftate , a sort of mule
animal capable only of destroying , and not of breeding up , is produced , called
the ...
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody , ought not to be
trusted by any body . ” 7 “ By engendering the church with the ftate , a sort of mule
animal capable only of destroying , and not of breeding up , is produced , called
the ...
Page 594
... that some members of the house of commons , many of his domestick servants
, and not a few of the nobility and great men of the realm , repaired from several
places to the king at York ; fo far from being willing to involve themselves in other
...
... that some members of the house of commons , many of his domestick servants
, and not a few of the nobility and great men of the realm , repaired from several
places to the king at York ; fo far from being willing to involve themselves in other
...
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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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