 | William Cabell Rives - 1868 - 678 pages
...are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature. But such conslructice wlio/c, residing in a lmi-t only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1881 - 676 pages
...are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature....positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principle of artificial incorporation. . . . This mode of decision, where wills may be so nearly equal... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1882 - 292 pages
...substratum in the actual. The member must have some relation to the constituent" (Vol. iii, pp. 334,335.) When representing one place, a member cannot be said...been or can be made on the principles of artificial o incorporation. Out of civil society, nature knows nothing of it ; nor are men, even when arranged... | |
 | 1886 - 522 pages
...are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea o£ the decision of a majority, as if it were a law of our original nature...incorporation. Out of civil society nature knows nothing of it In the abstract, it is perfectly clear, that out of a state of civil society, majority and minority... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 524 pages
...are so little affected by things which an! habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature....artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature TO THE OLD WHIGS. knows nothing of it ; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise... | |
 | 1852 - 608 pages
...consider this idea of the decision of a majority, as if it were ' a law of our original nature. But such a constructive whole, ' residing in a part only, is...positive law that ever has been or can be made on the prin' ciples of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society, nature * knows nothing of it ; nor... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 pages
...to justify the formation of a new corporate body. Where it existed, this right was in Burke's words "one of the most violent fictions of positive law...Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it." On the supposition that the old corporation had been validly dissolved, the new corporation could claim... | |
 | Ralph Lerner - 1994 - 164 pages
...audience as to be mistaken generally for "a law of our original nature," is disclosed by Burke to be "one of the most violent fictions of positive law...made on the principles of artificial incorporation" (A 3:82-83). Such examples, among many others, give added meaning to his proud assertion that he, Edmund... | |
 | 1838 - 558 pages
...are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority, as if it were a law of our original nature...positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principle of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society nature knows nothing of it," [except, Mr.... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 754 pages
...affected," says Burke, " by things which are habitual that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature...positive law, that ever has been or can be made on the principies of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society, nature knows nothing of it ; nor are... | |
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... of the whole. We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature. But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent... 
