 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 strani
...conscientice, to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow, or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." — (Introduction, Sec. 2. On the Nature of Laws in general.) The expression of Lord Brougham with... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 strani
...divine, and demonstrably by the natural law, and if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine (o). It cannot, however, be disputed, that obedience to the just laws of our country, merely as such,... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 strani
...conscience to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." — Blackstone, Vol. 1, p. 42, 43. " The law of nations depends entirely upon the rules of natural... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 strani
...conscience to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine."—Blackstone, Vol. I, p. 42, 43. " The law of nations depends entirely upon the rules of natural... | |
 | David Leahy - 1845 - 380 strani
...demon" strably by the natural law ; and if ANY human " law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we " are BOUND TO TRANSGRESS that human law, or else " we must offend both the natural and divine." In support of these principles authority may be derived even from military works of a merely... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1850 - 358 strani
...— to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine." (Pp. 42, 43.) "Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore... | |
 | Lewis W. Paine - 1851 - 206 strani
...conscientice, to abstain from its perpetration. Nay, if any human law should enjoin us to commit murder, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." Now, all laws prohibiting assistance to be rendered to slaves, and deterring all from helping them... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 strani
...divine, and demonstrably by the natural law, and if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine.2 It cannot, however, be doubted that obedience to the laws of our country, provided such laws... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 strani
...contradict these. * * • If any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit murder, we are bound lo transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine." God has not authorized civil magistrates either to enact laws binding the conscience, or to abolish... | |
 | William Goodell - 1853 - 448 strani
...AUTHORITY in the laws of England." (Noyes.) " If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend against both the natural and the divine." (Blackstone.) " When an Act of Parliament is against common... | |
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Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and the divine. 
