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«No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
conformed, conforms, considered, enactment, law, Law of God, The Law
«It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
«The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
citizens, civil, civil law, civil liberties, civil liberty, diminishes, increases, mischief, natural law, restrains, The Natural
«So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, moreover, violation, violations
«If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
at liberty, enact, enacted, enacting, Judges, legislature, positively, reject, subversive
«The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
«Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.»
«The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
Best interests, essentially, Individual right, individual rights, interested, Nothing More, private, private interest, protection, protections, public, public good, rights, The Public Interest
«In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
enforcing, Lib, one and the same, tyrannical, tyrannical governments, vest, vested, vests
«The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
bulwark, floating, In the Navy, island, navy, ornament, royal, the island
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