by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 15, 2015 | Constitutional Law
All the elements of the rule of law described in Chapter 2 should be enshrined in the constitution. The Supreme Court’s perversion of the United States Constitution’s due process clause to expand its power in precise opposition to the rule of law demonstrates the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 15, 2015 | Constitutional Law
There are rights which it is useless to surrender to the government, and which governments have yet always been fond to invade. These are the rights of thinking, and publishing our thoughts by speaking or writing, the right of free commerce, the right of personal...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 15, 2015 | Constitutional Law
The constitution should precisely prescribe the duties and limits of each official’s role. If instead convention is relied on, then the people’s safety is built upon sand. The likes of Sulla, Caesar and Lloyd George will brush convention aside, justifying their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 15, 2015 | Constitutional Law
Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it; God alone can be omnipotent, because his wisdom and his justice are always equal to his power. There is no power upon earth so worthy of honor for itself, that I...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 15, 2015 | Constitutional Law
It is therefore high time for all parties to consider what is best for the whole; and to establish such rules of commutative justice and indulgence, as may prevent oppression from any party. And this can only be done by restraining the hands of power, and fixing it...
