 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 218 pages
...Forms. —— lv XXIII. The Idea of Reformation. Ixix INTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION. N evefy human fociety, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happinefs, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weaknefs, and mifery. The intent of good laws... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1767 - 282 pages
...Ixxii XXIII. Ybeldea of Reformation .Ixx vii INTRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION. IN every human fociety, thefe is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happinefs, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weaknefs, and mifery. The intent of good laws... | |
 | History - 1778 - 630 pages
...fome of its moft important branches. " In every human (bciety, (fays the celebrated Marquis Beccaria) there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happinefs, and to reduce the other to the ex» treme of weaknefs and mifery. The intent of good laws... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1788 - 256 pages
...Procedure, ani other Forms, 233 . The Idea of Reformation, 237 INTRO* INTRODUCTION. IN every human fociety, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power -and happinefs, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weaknefs and mifery. The intent of good laws is... | |
 | New York (State). Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1788 - 186 pages
...following forcible words quoted from the Marquis Beccaria. " In every human fociety, there is an elTay continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happinefs, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weaknefs and mifery. The intent of good laws is... | |
 | History - 1801 - 554 pages
...fome of its moll important branches. " In every human fociety, (fays the celebrated Marquis Beccaria) there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happuiefs, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weaknefs and mifery. The intent of good lews is... | |
 | John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 650 pages
...most important branches. . • . . " IN every human society," says the celebrated marquis Beccaria, " there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The... | |
 | William Duane - Education - 1811 - 378 pages
...government ? A. Some celebrated men have so considered it. Beccaria says that " in every human socieu tji there is an effort continually tending to " confer...power and " happiness, and to reduce the other to the ex" treme of weakness and mise•y".... it would seem that the spirit of party must necessarily preserve... | |
 | George Watterston - Statesmen - 1818 - 158 pages
...regulating their political concerns. It will be found, as Beccaria very justly observes, that" in every society there is an effort continually tending to...power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extremes of weakness and nlisery; the intent of good laws Is to oppose this effort, and diffuse their... | |
 | Cesare marchese di Beccaria - Capital punishment - 1819 - 248 pages
...forms of procedure 229 XXIII. The idea of » reform suggested ...... 238 B k,,/<.rr: INTRODUCTION. IN every human society, there is an effort continually...reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence univciaolly ami equally.... | |
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In every human society," says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria, " there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is... 
