An Examination of the Trials for Sedition which Have Hitherto Occurred in Scotland, Volumen1D. Douglas, 1888 |
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Abercromby accused aggravation Anne Fisher annual parliaments association authority bench Botany Bay British Convention certainly charge circumstances conduct Constitution conviction court crime criminal dangerous declared defence discontent doctrine doubt duty Edinburgh England English Erskine evidence excite fact feelings French Convention friends George Mealmaker guilt high treason implied imputed indictment inference innocent intention John Muir Johnston judges judicial jurors jury justice liberty Lord Abercromby Lord Advocate Lord Eskgrove Lord Henderland Lord Swinton Lordship matter ment merely mind mischief Muir Muir's nature never object offence opinion pamphlet panel party peremptory challenge person plainly political popular principle printing prisoner prisoner's proceedings prosecution prosecutor published punishment question reform relevancy revolution Robert Weddell says Scotch Scotland seditious libel sentence Skirving society speech spirit statement tendency tion trial for sedition truth universal suffrage verdict whole wicked wickedly and feloniously words writing xxiii
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Página 110 - II. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it.
Página 110 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights; and these limits are determinable only by law.
Página 19 - ... event of a total change of system. Of all monarchs, indeed, since the revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
Página 25 - To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it, and nothing can be worse to any government, than to endeavour to procure animosities, as to the management of it : this has always been looked upon as a crime, and...
Página 177 - A Government in every country should be just like a Corporation,* and in this country it is made up of the landed interest which alone has a right to be represented.
Página 54 - The proposition which I mean to maintain as the basis of the liberty of the press, and without which it is an empty sound, is this ; — that every man, not intending to mislead, but seeking to enlighten others with what his own reason and con science, however erroneously, have dictated to him as truth, may address himself to the universal reason of a whole nation, either upon the subject of governments in general, or upon that of our own particular country...
Página 290 - The British Convention of (* the delegates of the people associated to obtain " universal suffrage and annual Parliaments.
Página 111 - The unrestrained communication of thoughts and opinions being one of the most precious Rights of Man, every citizen may speak, write, and publish freely, provided he is responsible for the abuse of this liberty, in cases determined by the law.
Página 111 - XIII. A common contribution being necessary for the support of the public force, and for defraying the other expenses of Government, it ought to be divided equally among the members of the community, according to their abilities. XIV. Every citizen has a right, either by himself or his representative...
Página 231 - The conspiracy to depose the king," he said, "is evidence of compassing and imagining the death of the king conclusive in its nature: so conclusive, »that it is become a presumption of law, which is in truth nothing more than a necessary and violent presumption of fact, admitting of no contradiction. Who can doubt that the natural person of the king is immediately attacked and attempted by him who attempts to depose him...