The Legislator
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legislators · the legislator · a sagacious legislator · a wise dispenser of public happiness · lawgivers · the legislature · the wise legislator
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)
Legitimate government can be formed only by the voluntary association of all who contribute to its support.
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The lawgiver or class of lawgivers whose proper role is to make general, clear, and proportionate penal laws.
and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
but it will be sufficient that the wise legislator mark the principal divisions, without disturbing the order, lest to crimes of the first degree, be assigned punishments of the last.
The first are temporary inconveniencies, which will oblige the legislator to correct the letter of the law, the want of preciseness and uncertainty of which has occasioned these disorders;
Nicomachean Ethics
Political figures who make citizens good by training them in habits of right action through legislation.
lawgivers make the citizens good by training them in habits of right action—this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The lawmaking body whose enactments the jury is meant to check against natural justice.
Legitimate government can be formed only by the voluntary association of all who contribute to its support.
Yet the advocates of arbitrary legislation are continually practising the fraud of pretending that unless the legislature make the laws, the laws will not be known.
The powers of juries, therefore, not only place a curb upon the powers of legislators and judges, but imply also an imputation upon their integrity and trustworthiness;