Notes on Sovereignty from the Standpoint of the State and of the World, Issue 38The Endowment, 1921 - 94 pages |
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Page 46 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme.
Page 51 - The common law includes those principles, usages, and rules of action applicable to the government and security of person and property, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.
Page 7 - There is, in every independent political community — that is, in every political community not in the habit of obedience to a superior above itself — some single person or some combination of persons which has the power of compelling the other members of the community to do exactly as it pleases.
Page 38 - Or the notions of sovereignty and independent political society may be expressed concisely thus.-—If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given | society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Page 70 - England no royal power can introduce a new law, or suspend the execution of the old, therefore the law of nations (wherever any question arises which is properly the object of its jurisdiction) is here adopted in its full extent by the common law, and is held to be a part of the law of the land.
Page 29 - Sovereignty is the supreme power by which any State is governed. The supreme power may be exercised either internally or externally. Internal sovereignty is that which is inherent in the people of any State, or vested in its ruler, by its municipal constitution or fundamental laws.
Page 4 - ... interests. She deliberates and takes resolutions in common, thus becoming a moral person who possesses an understanding and a will peculiar to herself, and is susceptible of obligations and rights.
Page 37 - Law defines independence as the right of a state to manage all its affairs, whether external or internal, without interference from other states, as long as it respects the corresponding right possessed by each fully-sovereign member of the family of nations.
Page 14 - Sovereignty (maiettas) is defined as the supreme and supereminent power of doing what pertains to the spiritual and bodily welfare of the members of the state. This power inheres by the very nature of the association in the people — the totality, that is of the members of the state.
Page 51 - A great proportion of the rules and maxims, which constitute the immense code of the common law, grew into use by gradual adoption, and received, from time to time, the sanction of the courts of justice without any legislative act or interference.