...The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769.The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in ...

...nother commodity will purchase; and there is no reason to suppose that the law of exchangeable value is more difficult of ascertainment in this case t... ...e is more difficult of ascertainment in this case than in other cases. The law, however, cannot be precisely the same as in the common cases. When two... ...n in other cases. The law, however, cannot be precisely the same as in the common cases. When two articles are produced in the im- mediate vicinity of... ..., unequal than equal. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. We shall now examine whether the same law of inter- change, which we have shown to apply upon the supposi- tion o... ...lready explained, we shall see that this is not by any means a uni- versal law: the fact may correspond with it, or it may not. For suppose that the p... ...he score of international morality or of sound policy. It is evidently the common interest of all na- tions that each of them should abstain from ever... ...ustment with other nations, on the principle of reciprocity. Until, by the common consent of nations, all restrictions upon trade are done away, a nat... ... almost indefinite exten- sion by a fall of price. Contrary, therefore, to common opin- ion, it is probable that our trade with the colonies, and with... ...ssage of the precious metals, defrayed in commodities: and that the result commonly is, an increase of exports and a diminution of imports, until the ...

...nd which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught, and well taught, in those early years whic... ...upposed may be taught, and well taught, in those early years which, in the common modes of what is called instruction, are little better than wasted. ... ...it is impossible not to be struck with: one of them unfortu nately a very common circumstance, the other a most un common one. The first is, that in... ...religion, which were more odious to all per sons of influence, and to the common run of prosperous Englishmen, in that generation than either before ... ...hat of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out... ...most un 17 John Stuart Mill usual, the English Constitution, the English law, and all par ties and classes who possessed any considerable influence... ...and in the main adopted, Bentham’s general views of ethics, government and law: and this was a natural foundation for sympathy between them, and made ... ...y father had but lately become acquainted, kindly allowed me to read Roman law with him. My father, notwithstanding his abhorrence of the chaos of bar... ...r, notwithstanding his abhorrence of the chaos of barbarism called English Law, had turned his thoughts towards the bar as on the whole less ineligibl...

...e should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable, and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught, and well taught, in those early years which, in the common modes of what is called instruction, are little better than wasted. It has also seemed to me that in an age of transition in opinions...

...tive justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interru...

...general good, and that The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 4 the law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save wher... ...e judgment ought to against them. These would be thought good pleas in any common case; but they will not be thought so in this instance. Before I cou... ...ans of asserting and protecting these rights, instead of the irregular and law less conflict of physical strength. Those who had already The Subjecti... ...of compact among the mas ters, who, binding themselves to one another for common protection, guaranteed by their collective strength the private poss... ...he inequality of rights between men and women has no other source than the law of the strongest. That this statement should have the effect of a para ... ...e Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 8 live—in a state in which the law of the strongest seems to be entirely abandoned as the regulating princ... ...slaves, and also (ex cept so far as limited by express compact) between a commonwealth and its subjects, or other independent commonwealths; the bani... ...ly required to be enlarged, not created. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have... ...rest in its exercise, is in this case not confined to a limited class, but common to the whole male sex. Instead of being, to most of its supporters) ...

...r-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as me... ...As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, an... ...d be disposed to resist such temptations, yet as such temptations may, and commonly do, result from circumstances peculiar to the State, and may affec... ... such a situation; whereas one gov- ernment, watching over the general and common interests, and combining and directing the powers and resources of t... ... without paying the price which it cost them. Although it seems obvious to common sense that the people of such an island should be but one nation, ye... ...slators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the credit... ...nment implies the power of making laws. It is essen- tial to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or ... ...onounce the resolutions of such a ma- jority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, uncon- stitutional, and void. If the people were not taint... ... the State governments. The magistracy, being equally the ministers of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubt- less b...

... made out, than algebra; which derives none of its certainty from what are commonly taught to learners as its elements, since these, as laid down by s... ...n by some of its most eminent teachers, are as full of fictions as English law, and of mysteries as theology. The truths which are ultimately accepted... ...action is not a question of direct perception, but of the application of a law to an individual case. They recognise also, to a great extent, the same... ...e any effort to reduce those various principles to one first principle, or common ground of obligation. They either assume the ordinary pre cepts of ... ...ry pre cepts of morals as of à priori authority, or they lay down as the common groundwork of those maxims, some generality much less obviously auth... ...r pretensions there ought ei ther to be some one fundamental principle or law, at the root of all morality, or if there be several, there should be a... ... act, that the rule on which thou actest would admit of being adopted as a law by all rational beings.’ But when he begins to deduce from this precept... ..., the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof. We are not, however, to infer that its accept... ...erything to pleasure, and that too in its grossest form, is another of the common charges against utilitarianism: and, as has been pointedly remarked ...

...ances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggrega tion, constitute a polity suited... ... limited and qualified freedom who will not co oper ate actively with the law and the public authorities in the repression of evil doers. A people wh... ...sequence of previous bad govern ment, which has taught them to regard the law as made for other ends than their good, and its administrators as worse... ...er exercised over them as a people whose sympathies are on the side of the law, and who are willing to give active assistance in its enforcement. Agai... ...ress only; whatever tends to either promotes both. Take, for instance, the common institution of a police. Order is the object which seems most immedi... ...ance is not disturbed by artificial regulation. Since the distinction most commonly adopted for the clas sification of social exigencies does not pos... ...Government very is, in all its details, so repugnant to that government of law, which is the foundation of all modern life, and so cor rupting to the... ... LONG (perhaps throughout the entire duration of Brit ish freedom) been a common form of speech, that if a good despot could be insured, despotic mon... ...Considerations on Representative Government try in some special direction (commonly military) to pro mote the grandeur of the despot. But the public ...

...ews. 12 No scutage nor aid shall be imposed in our king dom, unless by the common council of our kingdom; ex cepting to redeem our person, to make ... ..., should have all their liberties and free customs. 14 And also to have the common council of the king dom, to assess and aid, otherwise than in the... ...ht’s Fee, nor for any other free tenement, than what is due from thence. 17 Common Pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in any certain... ...rrows, or the like. 38 No Bailiff, for the future, shall put any man to his law, upon his own simple affirmation, without credible wit nesses produc... ...llegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the common good of Magna Carta 10 the kingdom: excepting prisoners and outla... ... shall not come, for the future, before our Justiciaries of the Forest on a common summons; unless they be parties in a plea, or sure ties for some ... ...by the verdict of their peers: for a tenement of England, ac cording to the law of England; for a tenement of Wales, according to the law of Wales; f... ...according to the law of Wales; for tenement of the Marches, according to the law of the Marches. The Welsh shall do the same to us and to our subjects...

...and respect for human rights and fun- damental freedoms and of the rule of law, DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecti... ... by parallel progress in other fields, RESOLVED to establish a citizenship common to the na- tionals of their countries, RESOLVED to implement a commo... ...N IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Douglas HURD, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; The Hon. Francis MAUDE, Financial Secretary to the Tr... ...ir full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: TITLE1 COMMON PROVISIONS ARTICLE A By this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties es... ...n the international scene, in particular through the imple- mentation of a common foreign and security policy in- cluding the eventual framing of a co... ...eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence;- to strengthen the protection of the rights and interests o... ...traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law. 3. The Union shall provide itself with the means neces- sary to attain... ...tives for the co-ordination of the above mentioned provisions laid down by law, regula- tion or administrative action. After the end of the sec- ond s... ...iod, issue directives for the co-ordination of the provisions laid down by law, regu- lation or administrative action in Member States con- cerning th...

...ge of everlasting darkness, when its hour had come. A slipper seems a very common- place object; but how interesting the veritable slipper of Empedocl... ...xander Pope: V ol. 2 nius, like true catholicity of faith, counts “nothing common or unclean.” What poetry Burns has gathered up even in “Poosie Nancy... ...ham, “who would have made a capital Chancellor if he had had only a little law;” so Pope was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his... ...s would write in verse. The music might lessen the malice, and set off the commonplace to advan- tage, so that if there were no “reason,” there might ... ...s power, And justly set the gem above the flower. ’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. ... ... With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of no... ...not Kent as well our treaties draw, Bridginan explain the gospel, Gibs the law? 56 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 EP EP EP EP EPISTLE ... ...from J——’s 115 opiates canst thou draw, Or H—k’s 116 quibbles voted into law? 157 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 C——, 117 that Roma... ...the contrary, obscurity ren- ders them more dangerous, as less thought of: law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts; morality alone can pass ce...

...enient for exercise. This mode of thought, or rather perhaps of feeling, was common among the last generation of European liberalism, in the Continent... ...tions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed, by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit s... ...nd by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects for the operation of law. What these rules should be, is the principal ques tion in human aff... ...he rules of conduct, both in act and forbearance which have been enforced by law or opinion, has been the ser vility of mankind towards the supposed ... ...etermined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion. And in general, those who have been in advance of society... ...ch as, to give evidence in a court of justice; to bear his fair share in the common defence, or in any other joint work neces sary to the interest of... ... to conform to its notions of personal, as of social excellence. The ancient commonwealths thought themselves entitled to practise, and the ancient ph... ...on may be allowed to rest on this com mon argument, not the worse for being common. Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fa... ...pinions impugned be the belief in a God and in a future state, or any of the commonly received doctrines of morality. To fight the battle on such grou...

...ed, either in a revolutionary re constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. In the earlier epochs of history, ... ...ctual production. The intellectual creations of individual na tions become common property. National one sidedness and narrow mindedness become mor... ... property; his relation to his wife and chil dren has no longer anything in common with the bour geois family relations; modern industrial labour, m... ...merica as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind ... ...ty, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an ex isten... ...arians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of en tire proletariat, independently of nationality. (... ...a personal, it is a social power. When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, “The Commun... ...geois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc. “The Communist Manifesto” 18 Your very ideas are but the outg... ...operty, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determin...