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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English) · Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)

In England, even in 1800, the members of trade unions might be liable to punishment under the Combination Act of 1800, or under the law of conspiracy, and a trade union which was certainly a non-lawful, was possibly an unlawful society, but it could not be dissolved at the will of the Government.

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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The principle that legal rights, rather than arbitrary governmental discretion, govern the existence of associations, said to characterize England's treatment of trade unions.

In England, even in 1800, the members of trade unions might be liable to punishment under the Combination Act of 1800, or under the law of conspiracy, and a trade union which was certainly a non-lawful, was possibly an unlawful society, but it could not be dissolved at the will of the Government.

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Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

The principle that public decisions and honors must follow written laws rather than rhetoric or factional pressure.

The Laws

against phormio ¶

As proof of what I say, hear the laws themselves.

against ctesiphon ¶

On this point Demosthenes and Ctesiphon will argue at length.

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Funeral OrationClassical · Greek

The principle that law, rather than a ruler's arbitrary will, should govern free citizens, presented as a value secured by the fallen's sacrifice.

If men are to be happy, the voice of law, and not a ruler’s threats, must reign supreme;

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AntidosisClassical · Greek

The civic and moral order by which actions, speech, and institutions are judged.

For this it is which has laid down laws concerning things just and unjust, and things honorable and base;

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but, because there has been implanted in us the power to persuade each other and to make clear to each other whatever we desire, not only have we escaped the life of wild beasts, but we have come together and founded cities and made laws and invented arts;

antidosis ¶

I consider that the kind of art which can implant honesty and justice in depraved natures has never existed and does not now exist, and that people who profess that power will grow weary and cease from their vain pretensions before such an education is ever found.

antidosis ¶

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

The constitutional principle that the King is subject to, rather than above, the law, attributed to Magna Carta.

Magna Carta has thus been truly said to enunciate “the reign of law” or “rule of law” in the phrase made famous by Professor Dicey.

iv magna carta an estimate of its value ¶