 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...government, however it began, or by whatsoever right it subsists, a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty reside." " By sovereign power is meant the making of laws ; for wherever that power resides, all others must... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Law - 1823 - 216 pages
...there is and must be in all of them a " supreme, irresistable, absolute, uncontrouled autho" rity, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights " of sovereignty reside." Agitation he XIV. The vehemence, the Seivorij?, of this passage is remarkable. He ransacks the language:... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1832 - 312 pages
...by what right soever they subsist, there is, and must be, in all of them, a supreme, irresistible, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. "f Paley, moreover, lays it down, that " there necessarily exists in every government a power from... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 396 pages
...government, he says,—however they began, or by what right soever they subsist, there must be in all, a supreme, irresistible, absolute and uncontrolled...summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty reside ;" J and according to him, the residence of this supreme power is in the legislative organ of the state.... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - History - 1837 - 510 pages
...Another point in this case was relied on, namely: that if the petitioners were not freed by the 6th article of the ordinance, they became so by the adoption...sovereignty in this sense, it is in contradistinction of the powers'given under a constitution, or the powers of a limited government, that a constitution emanates... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. And this authority is placed in those hands, wherein, according to the opinion of the founders of such... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...soever they sub- [*49] sist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. And this authority is placed in those hands, wherein (according to the opinion of the founders of such... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside." [flj One thing in the paragraph we are considering is observable; it is the concluding sentence, in... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. And this authority is placed in those hands, wherein (according to the opinion of the founders of such... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. And this authority is placed in those hands, wherein (according to the opinion of the founders of such... | |
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However they began, or by what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside. 
