 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...to diffuse their influence universally and equally ;" and Montesquieu declares that, "In a free state, every man, who is supposed a free agent, ought... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 pages
...ono part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." Rulers stimulated by this pernicious "effort," and subjects animated by the just "intent of opposing... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." Rulers stimulated by this pernicious "effort," and subjects animated by the just "intent of opposing... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 668 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." Rulers stimulated by this pernicious "effort," and subjects animated by the just "intent of opposing... | |
 | 1875 - 842 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." " Laws ought to be conventions between men in a state of freedom ; " and their true end should be "... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1904 - 212 pages
...one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." Rulers stimulated by this pernicious "effort," and subjects animated by the just "intent of opposing... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1918 - 774 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...and equally.' Rules stimulated by this pernicious 'effort1, and subjects, animated by the just 'intent of opposing good laws against it,' have occasioned... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 1986 - 292 pages
...one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." Rulers, stimulated by this pernicious "effort," and subjects animated by the just "intent of opposing... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 pages
...one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." We ought to guard against the government being placed in the hands of this class— They cannot have... | |
 | David Thomas Konig - 1995 - 396 pages
...one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this...diffuse their influence universally and equally." 95 Noah Webster called this process "the equalizing genius of the laws." 96 Madison appreciated that... | |
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In every human society, (says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria) there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to... 
