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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English) · The Law of Intellectual Property (English) · Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)

But another answer to the argument that the people are arrayed against themselves, when a jury hold an enactment of the government invalid, is, that the government, and all the departments of the government, are merely the servants and agents of the people;

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An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

The political authority whose power the trial by jury is meant to limit

In other words, the government, in all its acts, must keep itself so clearly within the limits of justice, as that twelve men, taken at random, will all agree that it is in the right, or it must incur the risk of resistance, without any power to punish it.

ch. 18 ¶

This preposterous doctrine, that “ignorance of the law excuses no one,” is asserted by courts because it is an indispensable one to the maintenance of absolute power in the government.

ch. 18 ¶

The only real object of this absurd and atrocious doctrine, that “ignorance of the law (that is, of crime) excuses no one,” and that “every one is bound to know the criminal law,” (that is, bound to know what is a crime,) is to maintain an entirely arbitrary authority on the part of the government, and to deny to the people all right to judge for themselves what their own rights and liberties are.

ch. 18 ¶

The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

The governing authority discussed in relation to its inability or unwillingness to confiscate a deceased person's property.

The universal nature of mankind, and their nearly or quite universal conduct, throughout life, and in their latest moments of reason, furnish so strong evidence that such is the will of all men, in regard to their property, that governments dare not disregard it—dare not confiscate the property of a deceased person, who left relatives living within any reasonable limit of consanguinity.

ch. 25 ¶

And if the property have no rightful owner, it perhaps ought to go to the public, and to the government as the representative of, and trustee for, the public.

ch. 25 ¶

It asserts that government has the right, at its own discretion, to take from any man the fruits of his labor, giving him in return such compensation only, for his labor, as the government deems reasonable.

ch. 17 ¶

Natural Law, or the Science of Justice19th Century · English

Organized political authority, portrayed in the passage as originating from bands of conquerors and existing to keep classes of men in subjection.

But all this they can do only by establishing what they call a government, and making what they call laws.

ch. 10 ¶

If justice be not a natural principle, governments (so-called) have no more right or reason to take cognizance of it, or to pretend or profess to take cognizance of it, than they have to take cognizance, or to pretend or profess to take cognizance, of any other nonentity;

ch. 5 ¶

Thus the whole business of legislation, which has now grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in the conspiracies, which have always existed among the few, for the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and extorting from them their labor, and all the profits of their labor.

ch. 11 ¶

Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq20th Century · Arabic

The state authority in whose name the policeman commands, and whose obeyed command is the major premise of the reconstructed syllogism.

My command is the government's command — and the government's command is obeyed — therefore my command is obeyed And I command you to follow me, so obey and follow me

ch. 4 ¶ · printed page 49

P — Because I command you in the name of the government

ch. 4 ¶ · printed page 49

And the underlying form of that is:

ch. 4 ¶ · printed page 49