 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1880 - 896 Seiten
...right. ' No human laws,' says Blackstone, ' are of any validity if contrary to the law of Nature ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately from this original.' A law which is palpably bad and unjust not merely stinks in the .nostrils of all men who think for... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - 1859 - 752 Seiten
...British authority, said : " The law of nature being coeval with God himself, is of course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in...this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority from this original." Said Washington, when announcing the treaty of peace to the army : "... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 Seiten
...of strength,) the only conceivable difference between This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself. is of course superior...obligation to any other. It is binding over all the «rlobe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 Seiten
...law, and then adds, that this law, which he calls " the law of nature," or the law of the creature, is " binding over all the globe, in all countries,...laws are of any validity if contrary to this." And further, that God has also made a revelation of this same will to man, and that "upon these two foundations,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 Seiten
...Sir William Blackstone wrote: " No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the law of nature; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority mediately or immediately from this original." This is good for teaching that a legislature does not necessarily exercise a divine right, but only... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 Seiten
...obscured by human power. This is what is called the law of nature, which, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 Seiten
...other laws : that no human laws are of any validity if contrary to them : that all human laws which are valid, derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from those divine originals." From this is to be inferred that, no human law which conflicts with the law... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 Seiten
...This is the foundation of what we call ethics or natural law; which, being coeval with mankind, is superior in obligation to any other. It is binding...no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to its precepts; and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - 1866 - 290 Seiten
...7 dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries and at all times : no...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. Human laws originate in the wisdom of man, and are designed to regulate their behavior to one another,... | |
 | John George Marshall - 1866 - 192 Seiten
...the' will of the Creator," he writes as follows : — " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior...It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid,... | |
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Commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity... 
