 | Bruce A. Harvey - 2001 - 348 pàgines
...descriptions of the common law should suffice to suggest the parallel. Jesse Root in 1798 argued that it is "within us, written upon the table of our hearts, in lively and indelible characters." The eminent jurist James Kent opined that "we meet with [the common law] when we wake and when we lay... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 pàgines
...his state's laws, said that while less abundantly documented than the common law, the law of nature "is near us, it is within us, written upon the table...of our hearts, in lively and indelible characters" and that it is "the Magna Carta of all our natural and religious rights and liberties" (cited in Howard,... | |
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Nor may we say, who will ascend into heaven to bring it down, or descend into the depths to bring it up, or traverse the Atlantic to import it; it is near us, it is within us, written upon the table of our hearts, in lively and indelible characters; by... 