 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.  The Lives of the Chief Justices of England - Page 29by John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1878Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 720 pages
...the queen who employs them ;" and: the Chief Justice follows up this maxim byobserving, «' If people should not be called to account for possessing the...opinion of the government, no government can subsist. Nothing can be worse for any government, than to endeavour to procure animosities as to ike management... | |
 | Europe - 1821 - 726 pages
...the queen -.vho employs them ;" and the Chief Justice follows up this maxim by observing, " If people should not be called to account for possessing the...opinion of the government, no government can subsist. Nothing can be worse for any government, than to endeavour to procure animosities as to the management... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 730 pages
...the queen who employs them ;" and the Chief Justice follows up this maxim by observing, " If people should not be called to account for possessing the...opinion of the government, no government can subsist. Nothing can be worse for any government, than to endeavour to procure animosities ч* to the management... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1822 - 458 pages
...sedition. 4 Bl. Com. 123. In R. v. Tuchin (bSt.Tr. 532, Holt. 424), Lord Holt said, that "if men shall not be called to account for possessing the people...opinion of the government, no government can subsist ; nothing can be worse to any government than to endeavour to procure animosities as to the management... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pages
...confirmed by a recent case before Lord Ellenborough, is too clear to require comment. ' If any man should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of seven years, is but too much exposed, 1 have drawn up the following account of a visit to London, after... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...Croswell. the government is criminal. That no government could NEW-YORK, IflfM subsist, if persons were not called to account, for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government ; and he submits it to the consideration of the jury, whether the words he had read to them did not... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 pages
...corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs is certainly a reflection on the Government. Jf men should not be called to account FOR POSSESSING the...opinion of the Government, NO Government can subsist." It is scarcely necessary to remark on the obvious but very serious fallacies in Lord Hoit's doctrine.... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 658 pages
...certainly a reflection on the " 5 St. Tr. 532. 3 Ann. 1704. 472 government. It' persons should Fnot be called to account for possessing the people with...opinion of the government, no government can subsist; nothing can be worse to any government, than to endeavour to procure animosities as to the management... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1826 - 788 pages
...certainly a reflection on the " government. If men should not be called to account for pos" sessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no " government can subsist ; nothing can be worse to any govern" ment than to endeavour to procure animosities as to the managc"... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...concerning a Government which permits only one side of every question to be heard. Lord Holt said, ' If men should not be called to account for possessing the...opinion of the Government, no Government can subsist.' Dr. Johnson said, ' If every murmurer at Government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace.'... | |
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