Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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... body of magistrates are it is requisite the government be so possessed , as executors of the law , constituted as one man need not to be of the whole power they have given afraid of another . themselves in quality of legislators . When ...
... body of magistrates are it is requisite the government be so possessed , as executors of the law , constituted as one man need not to be of the whole power they have given afraid of another . themselves in quality of legislators . When ...
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... body of the nobles , be accountable to their constituents and to the body chosen to represent but it is a different thing in England , the people , which have each their as- where they are deputed by boroughs . semblies and ...
... body of the nobles , be accountable to their constituents and to the body chosen to represent but it is a different thing in England , the people , which have each their as- where they are deputed by boroughs . semblies and ...
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... body should not single person . assemble of itself . For a body is But if there was no monarch , and supposed to have no will but when it the executive power was committed is assembled ; and besides , were it to a certain number of ...
... body should not single person . assemble of itself . For a body is But if there was no monarch , and supposed to have no will but when it the executive power was committed is assembled ; and besides , were it to a certain number of ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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