A Fragment on Government; Or, a Comment on the Commentaries:: Being an Examination of what is Delivered on the Subject of Government in General, in the Introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries:

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W. Pickering, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; and E. Wilson, Royal Exchange., 1823 - 143페이지
 

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4 페이지 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
xii 페이지 - It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong, been as yet developed.
8 페이지 - ... in the very act of associating together: namely, that the whole should protect all its parts, and that every part should pay obedience to the will of the whole ; or, in other words, that the community should guard the rights of each individual member, and that, in return for this protection, each individual should submit to the laws of the community ; without which submission of all, it was impossible that protection could be certainly extended to any.
50 페이지 - In general, all mankind will agree that government should be reposed in such persons in whom those qualities are most likely to be found, the perfection of which is among the attributes of him who is emphatically styled the Supreme Being...
142 페이지 - ... know what to look upon as his own, what as another's; what absolute and what relative duties are required at his hands; what is to be esteemed honest, dishonest, or indifferent; what degree every man retains of his natural liberty; what he has given up as the price of the benefits of society; and after what manner each person is to moderate the use and exercise of those rights which the state assigns him, in order to promote and secure the public tranquillity.
66 페이지 - In a democracy, where the right of making laws resides '• in the people at large, public virtue, or goodness of intention, is more likely to be found, than either of the other qualities of government.
72 페이지 - But the constitutional government of this island is so admirably tempered and compounded, that nothing can endanger or hurt it, but destroying the equilibrium of power between one branch of the legislature and the rest.
xviii 페이지 - ... arrogance, by treating with contempt and rudeness what has at least a better chance to be right than the singular notions of any particular man; and ingratitude, by denying that indulgence and undisturbed liberty of conscience to the members of the national church, which the retainers to every petty conventicle enjoy.
70 페이지 - For, as with us the executive power of the laws is lodged in a single person, they have all the advantages of strength and dispatch, that are to be found in the most absolute monarchy: and as the legislature of the kingdom is entrusted to three distinct powers, entirely independent of each other; first, the king; secondly, the lords spiritual and temporal, which is an...
46 페이지 - ... as being the circumstance, which contributes, in the largest proportion, to the formation of the standard here in question; the standard of right and wrong, by which alone the propriety of human conduct, in every situation, can with propriety be tried. This want of a sufficiently manifest connexion between the ideas of happiness...

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