The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: PoliticsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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... ment over them will , then , not be a right in the people , but treason to the existing government , for which they may rightfully be gibbeted or put to the sword . I repeat the position , that sovereignty , in free , popu- lar ...
... ment over them will , then , not be a right in the people , but treason to the existing government , for which they may rightfully be gibbeted or put to the sword . I repeat the position , that sovereignty , in free , popu- lar ...
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... ment may be popular , and is so with us ; but its origin is never popular . The people cannot make the constitution ; for to make the constitution is itself an act , and the most sovereign act , of the political sovereignty ; and ...
... ment may be popular , and is so with us ; but its origin is never popular . The people cannot make the constitution ; for to make the constitution is itself an act , and the most sovereign act , of the political sovereignty ; and ...
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... ment is of no legal force or value , forms no part of the pub- lic law of either the states or the Union . The act of the congress which drew it up , declaring the colonies absolved from their allegiance to the crown of Great Britain ...
... ment is of no legal force or value , forms no part of the pub- lic law of either the states or the Union . The act of the congress which drew it up , declaring the colonies absolved from their allegiance to the crown of Great Britain ...
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... ment was conceded , as it was , for the most part , by his opponents . He certainly had the advantage in the argu- ment of the chief justice of Rhode Island , and of the learned president of Brown University . Yet there was no sober ...
... ment was conceded , as it was , for the most part , by his opponents . He certainly had the advantage in the argu- ment of the chief justice of Rhode Island , and of the learned president of Brown University . Yet there was no sober ...
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... ment itself . Most of us , however logical we may be in our capacities and tendencies , are apt to take for our premises the assumptions of our particular school , or of the commu- nity in which we are brought up , and rarely , if ever ...
... ment itself . Most of us , however logical we may be in our capacities and tendencies , are apt to take for our premises the assumptions of our particular school , or of the commu- nity in which we are brought up , and rarely , if ever ...
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Página 289 - ... dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are (at) peace, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years.
Página 16 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God; and those that are, are ordained of God.
Página 289 - Every person who, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begins or sets on foot, or provides or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than three years.
Página 199 - Useful and necessary changes in legislation and administration," says the Laybach Circular of May, 1821, "ought only to emanate from the free will and intelligent conviction of those whom God has rendered responsible for power; all that deviates from this line necessarily leads to disorder, commotions, and evils far more insufferable than those which they pretend to remedy.
Página 100 - He observed, that the general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy; that some check therefore was to !j be sought for, against this tendency of our governments; and that a good Senate seemed most likely to answer the
Página 314 - ... well for themselves as for their vessels and effects, the same assistance which would be due to the inhabitants of the country where the damage happens, and shall pay the same charges and dues only as the said inhabitants would be subject to pay in a like case : And if the operations of repair...
Página 184 - States, brought by successful revolutions into the family of nations ; but it is not to be required of neutral Powers that they should await the recognition of the new Government by the parent State. No principle of public law has been more frequently acted upon within the last thirty years by« the great Powers of the world than this. Within that period eight or ten new States have established independent Governments within the limits of the colonial dominions of Spain, on this continent ; and in...
Página 314 - ... by all means in their power, to protect and defend all vessels and other effects belonging to the citizens or subjects of the other, which shall be within the extent of their jurisdiction by sea or by land, and shall use all their efforts to recover and cause to be restored to the right owners their vessels and effects which may have been taken from them within the extent of their said jurisdiction, whether they are at war or not with the power whose subjects have taken possession of the said...
Página 238 - ... subject, in civil cases, to an appeal to the superior tribunals of their own country. The criminal jurisdiction is usually limited to the infliction of pecuniary penalties, and, in offences of a higher grade, the consular functions are similar to those of a police magistrate, ovj.uge fT instruction. He collects the documentary and other proofs, and sends them, together with the prisoner, home to his own country for trial.
Página 198 - that useful and necessary changes in legislation and administration, ought only to emanate from the free will and intelligent conviction of those whom God has rendered responsible for power; all that deviates from this line necessarily leads to disorder, commotions, and evils, far more insufferable than those which they pretend to remedy."| Now, sir, this principle would carry Europe back again, at once, into the middle of the dark ages.