 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...upon the peocountries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force,...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." — Blackstone, Vol. 1, p. 41. Mr. Christian, one of Blackstone's editors, in a note to the above passage,... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...either upon the peocountries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force,...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."—Blackstone, Vol. 1, p. 41. Mr. Christian, one of Blackstone's editors, in a note to the... | |
 | John Pickering - Business & Economics - 1847 - 222 pages
...the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force and all their authority from this [divine] original." It is in the violation of this great fundamental and immutable law of... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of philosophical turn fur speculating on all the afas are valid derive all their force, and all their authority mediately or immediately from tins original."* These authorities have been quoted to let the reader see that (he superiority of moral... | |
 | Charles Elliott - History - 1850 - 372 pages
...globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." (P. 41.) " Upon these two foundations—the law of nature and the law of revelation—depend all human... | |
 | None - History - 1851 - 514 pages
...the globe, in all countries, and all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." He instances, also, offences, "which, if any human law should enjoin us to commit, we are bound to... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 626 pages
...over the globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force...authority. mediately or immediately, from this original." — 1 Com. 41. Fortescue, the Chancellor of Henry VI., in his De Laudibus Legum Anglice, cap. 42, has... | |
 | Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 588 pages
...globe ; in all countries, at all times. No human laws have any validity, if contrary to this : 288 and such of them as are valid, derive all their force...authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." — 1 Com. 41. Fortescue, the Chancellor of Henry VI., in his De Laudibus Legum Anglice, cap. 42, has... | |
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Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity... 
