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- Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and…
- It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other…
- If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the…
- It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what…
- The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured.…
- All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to…
- If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner,…
- The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.…
- The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to…
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