 | 1850 - 806 Seiten
...which some have drawn, that governments are not so strictly bound by the obligations of the moral law in relation to other powers, as they are in the management of their own local concerns. But, while we fully concur in the sentiment, we cannot see that the argument removes the marked distinction... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1840 - 146 Seiten
...of nations and of individuals on the same grounds. " States or public bodies are to be con" sidered as moral persons, having a public will, " capable...free to do right and wrong, inasmuch as " they are but companies of individuals, each of whom " carries with him into the service of the community, "... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 464 Seiten
...public law from that of ethics, nor encourage the dangerous suggestion that governments are not so strictly bound by the obligations of truth, justice,...are in the management of their own local concerns." Having traced as well as we were able, the foundations of the science about which our present article... | |
 | 1847 - 722 Seiten
...what are nations ? Let the interpreter of Natural Law answer. " States, or bodies politic," says he, " are to be considered as moral persons, having a public will, capable and free to do right aad wrong, inasmuch as they are collections of individuals, each of whom carries with him into the... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 Seiten
...what are nations ? Let the interpreter of Natural Law answer. " States, or bodies politic," says he, " are to be considered as moral persons, having a public will, capable and free to do right aad wrong, inasmuch as they are collections of individuals, each of whom carries with him into the... | |
 | 1847 - 722 Seiten
...what are nations ? Let the interpreter of Natural Law answer. " States, or bodies politic," says he, " are to be considered as moral persons, having a public will, capable and free to do right aad wrong, inasmuch as they are collections of individuals, each of whom carries with him into the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 910 Seiten
...which some have drawn, that governments are not so strictly hound by the obligations of the moral law in relation to other powers, as they are in the management of their own local concerns. But, while we fully concur in the sentiment, we cannot see that the argument removes the marked distinction... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 Seiten
...ethies, nor encourage the dangerous stau». Suggestion, that governments are not so strictly bound *3 by the obligations of truth, justice and humanity,...local concerns. States, or bodies politic, are to be ciiu- LX sidered as moral persons, having a public will, capable and \ * free to do right and wrong,... | |
 | William Hosmer - 1852 - 226 Seiten
...precepts Justinian has reduced the whole doctrine of the law."—BLACKSTONE, Com., Intro.: sec. 2. " We ought not, therefore, to separate the science of...powers, as they are in the management of their own local concerns."—KENT, Com.: see. 1. " The divine right of kings is, like the divine right of other magistrates—the... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 Seiten
...ethics, nor encourage the dan- states. gerous * suggestion, that governments are not so strictly *3 bound by the obligations of truth, justice, and humanity,...management of their own local concerns. States, or bodies politie, are to be considered as moral persons, having a public will, capable and free to do right... | |
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We ought not, therefore, to separate the science of public law from that of ethics, nor encourage the dangerous suggestion that governments are not so strictly bound by the obligations of truth, justice, and humanity, in relation to other powers, as they... 
