...aim at eftabli£hing a fyftem of what might properly be called natural jurifprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But tho' the reafonings of lawyers did produce fomething of this kind, and though no man has treated...

...aim at eftablifhing a fyftem of what might properly be called natural jurifprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But tho' the reafonings of lawyers did produce fornething of this kind, and though no man has treated...

...aim at eftablifhing a fyftem of what might properly be called natural jurifprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But tho' the reafonings of lawyers did produce fomething of this kind, and though no man has treated...

...the French Legiflators laying the foundation of their Government in thofe aatural rules of juftice, which " ought **- to run through, and be the foundation " of, the laws of all countries." We fin cerely . accord with their doctrine, that " the nation is eflcntially the fource-...

...the remedy ** a iyStem of what might properly ** be called natural jurifprudeace, or a the'* ory of the general principles which ought *' to run through, and be the foundation of, " the law's of all nations" The whole paflage is curious, and worth tranfcribing ; and, whether the reafoning...

...afcertain the phHofophical principles of jurifprudence ; or (as Mr. SMITH exprefTes" it) to afcertain " the general principles which ought to run through...prejudices of the people are widely at variance with thefe principles, the political liberty which the conftitution beftows, only furnifhes them with the...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of nil nations ; and his treatise of the laws of war and peace, with all its imperfections, is perhaps...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to' give the world any thing like a system of those principles which" ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws'of all] nations ; and his treatise of the laws of war. and .peace, with, all its imperfections,...

...which has for its object to ascertain the philosophical principles of jurisprudence ; or (as Mr Smith expresses it) to ascertain " the general principles...were possible to suppose these principles completely realized in any system of laws, the people would have little reason to complain, that they were not...

...afcertain the philofophical principles of jurifprudence; or (as Mr. Smith exprefles it) to afcertain " the " general principles which ought to run " through...prejudices of the people are widely at variance with thefe principles, the political liberty which the conftitution beflows, only furnifhes them with the...