| William Blackstone - 1979 - 520 pages
...legiilative and judicial powers ought to be moll carefully avoided', yet it may happen that a fubjedt, intrufted with the adminiftration of public affairs,...infringe the rights of the people, and be guilty of iuch crimes, as the ordinary magiftrate either dares not or cannot puniih. Of thefe the reprefentatives... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 680 pages
...examined and punished. . . . It might also happen, that a subject, intrusted with the administration of public affairs, may infringe the rights of the people, and be guilty of crimes which the ordinary magistrates either could not, or would not, punish. But, in general, the... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...itself, by mitigating the sentence. It might also happen that a subject intrusted with the administration of public affairs, may infringe the rights of the people, and be guilty of crimes which the ordinary magistrates either could not, or would not punish. But, in general, the legislative... | |
| Charles Roger Dod - 1842 - 698 pages
...principles of jurisprudence, has been justified, on the ground that a man entrusted with the administration of public affairs may infringe the rights of the people, and be guilty of such great and enormous crimes, that the ordinary magistrates either dare not or cannot punish. It... | |
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