This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750 edition. Excerpt: ...theWspetha ftrength of the republic. Hence it was that theg;'n s provinces looked upon the lofs of the liberty of Verres. Rome as the epocha of their own freedom. CHAP. XX. End of this Book. I Should be glad to inquire into the distribution of the three powers, in all the moderate governments we are acquainted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750 edition. Excerpt: ...theWspetha ftrength of the republic. Hence it was that theg;'n s provinces looked upon the lofs of the liberty of Verres. Rome as the epocha of their own freedom. CHAP. XX. End of this Book. I Should be glad to inquire into the distribution of the three powers, in all the moderate governments we are acquainted with, and to calculate thereby the degrees of liberty which each may enjoy. But we muft not always exhauft a fubjecT: fo far, as to leave no work at all for the reader. My bu-finefs is not to make people read, but to make them think. f It is well known what fort of a tribunal was that of Varu-4 which provoked the Germans to revolt. Sa BOOK BOOK XII. Of the Laws that form political Liberty as relative to the Subjeft. CHART. Idea of this Book. Book T T is not fufficient to have treated of political-L liberty as relative to the conftitution; we muft examine it likewifc in the relation it bears to the fubject. We have obfervcd that in the firft cafe it is formed by a certain diftribution of the three powers: but in the fccond we muft confider it under another idea. It confifts in fecurity, or in the opinion people have of their fecurity. The conftitution may happen to be free, and the fubject not. The fubject may be free, and not the conftitution. In thofe cafes, the conftitution will be free by right and not in fact, the fubject will be free in fact and not by right. It is the difpofition only of the laws, and even of the fundamental laws, that conftitutes liberty in its relation to the conftitution. But as it relates to the fubject, morals, cuftoms, received examples may give rife to it, and particular civil laws may favour it, as we (hall prelently fee in this book. Farther, as in moft governments, liberty is more checked or...
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Very Good. Volume two only! Hardcover with green cloth boards, 1873, octavo, 455pp., not illustrated. Book VG with toning, soil, and rubbing to boards and spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
