The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 1429 Seiten Reprint of the rare first edition. Contains important early commentaries on the U.S. Constitution by one of the most influential delegates to the Federal Constitutional Convention and one of the six founding fathers who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, later an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Works are comprised mostly of lectures delivered in 1790-1791 at the College of Philadelphia. They cover several aspects of public and private law, such as the common law, general principles of the law of nations and the law of nature, the U.S. Constitution, crime, obligations and property. The texts of several important speeches given at the Federal Convention and his rousing oration celebrating Pennsylvania's adoption of the Constitution on July 4, 1788 are also included. Many of these pieces are important early commentaries on the Constitution. Three volumes. |
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... peaceful voice of their virtue has not been heard . But to their memories , justice , should be done , as far as it ... peace . Above it , is represented the rising glory of the United States . It is without a statue and without a name ...
... peaceful voice of their virtue has not been heard . But to their memories , justice , should be done , as far as it ... peace . Above it , is represented the rising glory of the United States . It is without a statue and without a name ...
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... peace . It is a prin- ciple not recommended merely by a flattering theory : it is a principle recommended by happy experience . To the testimony of Pennsylvania — to the testimony of the United States I appeal for the truth of what I ...
... peace . It is a prin- ciple not recommended merely by a flattering theory : it is a principle recommended by happy experience . To the testimony of Pennsylvania — to the testimony of the United States I appeal for the truth of what I ...
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... peace , and in securing property . Property , highly deserving security , is , however , not an end , but a means . How miserable , and how con- temptible is that man , who inverts the order of nature , and makes his property , not a ...
... peace , and in securing property . Property , highly deserving security , is , however , not an end , but a means . How miserable , and how con- temptible is that man , who inverts the order of nature , and makes his property , not a ...
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... peace and joy . " Before we descend to the consideration of the several kinds and parts of this science , so dignified and so diver- sified , it will be proper , and it will be useful , to contem- plate it in one general and ...
... peace and joy . " Before we descend to the consideration of the several kinds and parts of this science , so dignified and so diver- sified , it will be proper , and it will be useful , to contem- plate it in one general and ...
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... Peace was dedicated to his father , Lewis the thir- teenth ; and its author , we are told , had credit with some of the ministers of that prince . Every plausible notion in favour of arbitrary power , appearing in a respectable dress ...
... Peace was dedicated to his father , Lewis the thir- teenth ; and its author , we are told , had credit with some of the ministers of that prince . Every plausible notion in favour of arbitrary power , appearing in a respectable dress ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 56 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Seite 56 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 113 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Seite 452 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Seite 259 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Seite 295 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Seite 51 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 412 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Seite 93 - It will be sufficient to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses.