 | Benjamin Disraeli - 470 str.
...mended."22 More than a century earlier, the Tory Lord Bolingbroke described the idea of the constitution. "By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed."... | |
 | Alfred E. Kellermann, Kurt Siehr, Talia Einhorn - 1998 - 412 str.
...a classic definition, Bolingbroke, the British statesman (1773), defined a constitution as follows: 'By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.... | |
 | Stephen M. Griffin - 1998 - 228 str.
...fundamental law. A wellknown eighteenth-century British definition was that "By constitution we mean . . . that assemblage of laws, institutions and customs,...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed."9... | |
 | Reinhard R. Doerries - 1999 - 500 str.
...gar nicht auf, so steht am Ende der Entwicklung Bolingbrokes berühmt gewordene Definition von 1733: „By Constitution We mean, whenever We speak with...Laws, Institutions and Customs, derived from certain fix'd Principles of Reason, directed to certain fix'd Objects of publick Good, that compose the general... | |
 | E. Robert Statham - 2002 - 256 str.
...that was given much earlier, by Lord Bolingbroke, in 1733. He noted: "By constitution we mean . . . that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs,...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.... | |
 | Beau Breslin - 2004 - 298 str.
...— described by most historians as the "classical" theory of constitutionalism — when he wrote: "By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.""... | |
 | Charles Howard McIlwain - 2005 - 172 str.
...development. The older view was probably never better indicated than by Bolingbroke, when he said in 1733: "By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.... | |
 | Daniel J. Hulsebosch - 2006 - 496 str.
...bad, depending on whether their ministers adhered to the transcendent constitution. This he denned as "that assemblage of laws, institutions and customs,...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed."... | |
 | Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin - 2007 - 398 str.
...life itself cannot be preserved a moment" (Bailyn 1967, p. 68, citing Adams Works, III, pp. 478-79). "By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed"... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 str.
...subject of constitutional thinking was made long ago by Bolingbrooke: that by "[constitution we mean... that assemblage of laws, institutions and customs,...principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of the public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be... | |
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By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system,... 
