The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 14J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1791 - Books and bookselling |
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Page 21
... legislative wisdom . To permit in- tromission , and to punish fraud , is to make law no better than a pitfall . To tread upon the brink is fafe ; but to come a step further is destruction . But , farely , it is better to inclofe the ...
... legislative wisdom . To permit in- tromission , and to punish fraud , is to make law no better than a pitfall . To tread upon the brink is fafe ; but to come a step further is destruction . But , farely , it is better to inclofe the ...
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... legislative authority . It admits howe- ver of the clearest proof that such a conftitution would have been diametri- cally opposite in its fpirit and princi . ples to the English government . This will at once be evident from the ...
... legislative authority . It admits howe- ver of the clearest proof that such a conftitution would have been diametri- cally opposite in its fpirit and princi . ples to the English government . This will at once be evident from the ...
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... Legislative body ; he is the head of the Executive Power , and , in that capacity , caufes the laws to be executed by his Minifter . " If he quits his poft , although carried off against his will , the Representatives of the Nation have ...
... Legislative body ; he is the head of the Executive Power , and , in that capacity , caufes the laws to be executed by his Minifter . " If he quits his poft , although carried off against his will , the Representatives of the Nation have ...
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... Legislative Body ? It is wished to make war with im- punity ; but have we not had , under the antient government , fufficient experience of the terrible effects produced by the ambi- tion of Ministers ? " Frenchmen all the powers are ...
... Legislative Body ? It is wished to make war with im- punity ; but have we not had , under the antient government , fufficient experience of the terrible effects produced by the ambi- tion of Ministers ? " Frenchmen all the powers are ...
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THE Monthly Register FOR AUGUST 1791 . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . IV . The Legislative Power may , from FUNDAMENTAL DISPOSITIONS , GUA- important confiderations , naturalize a fo- * The Committees of Conftitution and of Revifion are of.
THE Monthly Register FOR AUGUST 1791 . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . IV . The Legislative Power may , from FUNDAMENTAL DISPOSITIONS , GUA- important confiderations , naturalize a fo- * The Committees of Conftitution and of Revifion are of.
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