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

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D. C. Heath & Company, 1889 - 686 pàgines
 

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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 659 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
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 389 - Its other, nominal, members, the Lord President of the Council, the five Principal Secretaries of State, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reality take no part in its management. It is, in effect, the English department of the Interior.
Pàgina 384 - Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Pàgina 12 - ... as we are not by ourselves sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent store of things needful for such a life as our nature doth desire — a life fit for the dignity of man — therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us, as living single and solely by ourselves, we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others; this was the cause of men's uniting themselves at first in politic societies...
Pàgina 499 - ... he must have lived in the United States at least five years, and in the state or territory...
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...
Pàgina 403 - The general courts of the kingdom are combined under the name, Supreme Court of Judicature. This court is divided into two parts, which are really two quite distinct courts ; namely, the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal. Over all, as court of last resort, still stands the House of Lords. The High Court of Justice acts in three divisions, a Chancery Division, a Queen's Bench Division, and a Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division ; and these three divisions constitute the ordinary courts...

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