Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and Constitutional Construction: Containing an Examination of Adjudged Cases on Constitutional Law Under the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the Respective States Concerning Legislative Power, and Also the Consideration of the Rules of Law in the Construction of Statutes and Constitutional ProvisionsThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2007 - 976 pages |
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... established seat of despotism, the laws, properly so called, seem for the most part to have been immutable, by whatever authority they were originally framed, and the decrees of the monarch were chiefly perhaps of a temporary and ...
... established seat of despotism, the laws, properly so called, seem for the most part to have been immutable, by whatever authority they were originally framed, and the decrees of the monarch were chiefly perhaps of a temporary and ...
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... till the people had given them their approbation and confirmed them by their suffrages. The magistrates, to the number of ten, established for the maintaining good order, and therefore called " 4 ORIGIN AND HISTORY OP [CHAP. I.
... till the people had given them their approbation and confirmed them by their suffrages. The magistrates, to the number of ten, established for the maintaining good order, and therefore called " 4 ORIGIN AND HISTORY OP [CHAP. I.
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... established for the maintaining good order, and therefore called " Cosmi" held the two other bodies of state in check and preserved the balance between them. In time of war the same persons commanded the army. They were chosen by lot ...
... established for the maintaining good order, and therefore called " Cosmi" held the two other bodies of state in check and preserved the balance between them. In time of war the same persons commanded the army. They were chosen by lot ...
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... established, and continued to subsist until the defeat in Sicily and the conquest of the city by the Lacedemonians. Its inhabitants were then subjected to the thirty tyrants, whose usurpation and tyranny induced the people soon to throw ...
... established, and continued to subsist until the defeat in Sicily and the conquest of the city by the Lacedemonians. Its inhabitants were then subjected to the thirty tyrants, whose usurpation and tyranny induced the people soon to throw ...
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... established this council to inform and direct the people, to fix their inconstancy, to check their temerity, and to impart to their deliberations a prudence and maturity not to be expected in a confused and tumultuous assembly, composed ...
... established this council to inform and direct the people, to fix their inconstancy, to check their temerity, and to impart to their deliberations a prudence and maturity not to be expected in a confused and tumultuous assembly, composed ...
Contents
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CHAPTER VII | 236 |
Constitutional restrictions upon Legislative Power under the Con | 310 |
CHAPTER XIII | 739 |
CHAPTER XIV | 751 |
CHAPTER XV | 771 |
CHAPTER XVI | 814 |
CHAPTER XVII | 839 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 854 |
CHAPTER XX | 913 |
CHAPTER XXI | 935 |
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