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... → THE RULE OF LAW ITS APPLICATIONS ال احبك V. 4. The Right to Personal Freedom . II . The Right to Freedom of Discussion . Clai III . The Right of Public Meeting . 167 217 LECTURE VIL THE RULE OF LAW ITS APPLICATIONS Av .
... → THE RULE OF LAW ITS APPLICATIONS ال احبك V. 4. The Right to Personal Freedom . II . The Right to Freedom of Discussion . Clai III . The Right of Public Meeting . 167 217 LECTURE VIL THE RULE OF LAW ITS APPLICATIONS Av .
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... meeting , and many other rights , are part of the law of the constitution , though most of these rights are consequences of the more general law or principle that no man can be punished except for direct breaches of law ( i . e . crimes ) ...
... meeting , and many other rights , are part of the law of the constitution , though most of these rights are consequences of the more general law or principle that no man can be punished except for direct breaches of law ( i . e . crimes ) ...
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... meetings , or which abolished trial by jury , might be inexpedient or unjust , but would be a perfectly valid law , and 1 28 & 29 Vict . c . 63 , ss . 2-5 . would be recognised as such by every tribunal throughout the 98 COMPARISON ...
... meetings , or which abolished trial by jury , might be inexpedient or unjust , but would be a perfectly valid law , and 1 28 & 29 Vict . c . 63 , ss . 2-5 . would be recognised as such by every tribunal throughout the 98 COMPARISON ...
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... meeting of the States General the King was apparently reluctant to give up altogether the powers exercised by lettres de cachet . See Déclaration des intentions du Roi , Art . 15 , Plouard , Les Constitutions Françaises , crowned heads ...
... meeting of the States General the King was apparently reluctant to give up altogether the powers exercised by lettres de cachet . See Déclaration des intentions du Roi , Art . 15 , Plouard , Les Constitutions Françaises , crowned heads ...
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... meeting ) , are with us the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the Courts 2 ; whereas under many foreign consti- tutions the security ( such as it is ) given to the ...
... meeting ) , are with us the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the Courts 2 ; whereas under many foreign consti- tutions the security ( such as it is ) given to the ...
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Page 71 - When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.
Page 153 - WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom...
Page 148 - A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Page 244 - La libre communication des pensées et des opinions est un des droits les plus précieux de l'homme : tout citoyen peut donc parler, écrire, imprimer librement, sauf à répondre de l'abus de cette liberté dans les cas déterminés par la loi.
Page 38 - ... this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these Kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Page 40 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 98 - Legislature shall, in respect to the colony under its jurisdiction, have and be deemed at all times to have had full power to make laws respecting the constitution powers and procedure of such Legislature: Provided that such laws shall have been passed in such manner and form as may from time to time be required by any Act of Parliament Letters Patent Order in Council or colonial law for the time being in force in the said colony.
Page 148 - ... where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any state, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States...
Page 71 - NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Page 297 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.