Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 sayfa |
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Sayfa 158
... legislature , the roll of freeholders en- titled to vote not including generally the half of those on the roll of the militia , or of the tax- gatherers . 2. Among those who share the representa- tion , the shares are very unequal ...
... legislature , the roll of freeholders en- titled to vote not including generally the half of those on the roll of the militia , or of the tax- gatherers . 2. Among those who share the representa- tion , the shares are very unequal ...
Sayfa 159
... legislature . These 19,000 therefore , living in one part of the country , give law to upwards of 30,000 living in another , and appoint all their chief officers executive and judiciary . From * Of thefe 542 are on the Eaftern shore . + ...
... legislature . These 19,000 therefore , living in one part of the country , give law to upwards of 30,000 living in another , and appoint all their chief officers executive and judiciary . From * Of thefe 542 are on the Eaftern shore . + ...
Sayfa 160
... legislature into two houses , those benefits which a proper complication of principles is capable of producing , and those which alone can compensate the evils which may be produced by their dissentions . 4. All the powers of government ...
... legislature into two houses , those benefits which a proper complication of principles is capable of producing , and those which alone can compensate the evils which may be produced by their dissentions . 4. All the powers of government ...
Sayfa 161
... legislature assumes executive and judiciary powers , no opposition is likely to be made ; nor , if made , can it be effectual : because in that case they may put their proceed- ings into the form of an act of assembly , which will ...
... legislature assumes executive and judiciary powers , no opposition is likely to be made ; nor , if made , can it be effectual : because in that case they may put their proceed- ings into the form of an act of assembly , which will ...
Sayfa 162
... trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered . To ren- der these considerations the more cogent , we must observe in addition : 5. That the ordinary legislature may alter the constitution itself [ 162 ]
... trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered . To ren- der these considerations the more cogent , we must observe in addition : 5. That the ordinary legislature may alter the constitution itself [ 162 ]
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Sayfa 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Sayfa 307 - Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Sayfa 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Sayfa 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Sayfa 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Sayfa 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Sayfa 220 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Sayfa 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Sayfa 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Sayfa 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...