The Rights of Man to Property!: Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among the Adults of the Present Generation, and to Provide for Its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation on Arriving at the Age of Maturity |
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Page 164 - do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves, " null and void. Every age and generation must be " as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages •' and generations which preceded it. The vanity " and presumption of governing beyond the grave-, " is the most ridiculous and insolent of all
Page 163 - possessed of the right, or the power of " binding and controlling posterity to the end of " time, or of commanding for ever how the world " shall be governed, or who shall govern it. And, " therefore, all such clauses, acts, or declarations, -• by which the makers of them attempt to do, i( what they have neither the right nor the power to
Page 182 - shall not exercise the right of voting ; such " charters, would in the face be charters, not of " rights, but of exclusion. The effect is th^e same " under the form they now stand ; and the only " persons on whom they operate, are the persons " whom they exclude. Those whose rights are " guaranteed, by not being taken away, exercise no
Page 58 - to the despotic form, which makes " the good of the Sovereign, or of one man, the "only object of the government,) when I say, they "agree to do this, it is to be understood, that they "mutually resolve and pledge themselves to each " other, rich and poor alike, to support and
Page 105 - to him. He possessed it only for a year, at " the expiration of which, a new division was " made, in proportion to the rank, the number, and <( exigencies of each family. Ail those lands were " cultivated by the joint industry of the
Page 297 - the first clause, in the second section, of the Fourth Article of the Constitution of the United States, " The citizens of each State shall be " entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens " in the several States,
Page 58 - can take it from him, and that the common " cementing principle, which holds all the parts of a republic together, secures him likewise from the despotism of numbers : For despotism may be more effectually acted by many over a few, than by one man over
Page 163 - There never did. there never will, and there •' never can exist a parliament, or any description " of men, or any generation of men, in any
Page 66 - The Proceedings of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Mississippi, adjacent to New Orleans, against the Intrusion
Page 66 - That the lands within the limits assumed by a nation, belong to the nation, as a body, has probably been the law of every people on earth, at some period of their history. A right of property, in moveable things, is admitted before the establishment of government. A separate property, in