The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1892 - 686 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 659 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pàgina 12 - I have named all governors of independent communities, whether they are, or are not, in league with others: for it is not every compact that puts an end to the state of nature between men, but only this one of agreeing together mutually to enter into one community, and make one body politic; other promises and compacts men may make one with another, and yet still be in the state of nature.
Pàgina 484 - the power to tax involves the power to destroy.' Recollecting the fundamental principle that the Constitution, laws and treaties of the United States are the supreme law of the land...
Pàgina 384 - Cabinet includes the following ten members of the administration : the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the five Secretaries of State.
Pàgina 556 - Court can have original jurisdiction in two classes of cases only, viz., in cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and in cases in which a state is a party.
Pàgina 402 - Law (the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Exchequer...
Pàgina 638 - But enough has been said to show that the admitted functions of government embrace a much wider field than can easily be included within the ring-fence of any restrictive definition, and that it is hardly possible to find any ground of justification common to them all, except the comprehensive one of general expediency...
Pàgina 499 - ... he must have lived in the United States at least five years, and in the state or territory...
Pàgina 389 - It is charged with supervising the administration, by the local authorities of the kingdom, " of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government," — duties more important to the daily good government of the country than those of any other department.
Pàgina 667 - And, in the second place, no instrumentality less universal in its power and authority than government can secure popular education. In brief, in order to secure popular education the action of society as a whole is necessary; and popular education is indispensable to that equalization of the conditions of personal development which we have taken to be the proper object of society. Without popular education, moreover, no government which rests upon popular action can long endure: the people must...

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