 If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...  The Southern Review - Page 4541829Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1904 - 926 pages
...1731 Franklin was tried for a similar political libel (17 St. Tr. 626; 22 ib. 973. n). JOHN TUTCHIN. "To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1890 - 906 pages
...of my own, but read to you the words of a learned and upright judge in a case of the like nature : " To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 574 pages
...possess the people with the notion that the government is administered by corrupt persons. If writers should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. You are to consider whether the words which I have read to you do not tend to beget an... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...sedition. In Rex r. Tntchin, 5 Harg. St. Tr 527, 532, Holt, 424, Lord Holt said that ' if men shall not be called to account for possessing the people...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist ; nothing can be worse to any government than to endeavor to procure animosities as to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1894 - 546 pages
...possess the people with the notion that the government is administered by corrupt persons. If writers should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. You are to consider whether the words which I have read to you do not tend to beget an... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Libel and slander - 1897 - 248 pages
...beget an ill opinion of the Government is a criminal libel. Lord Holt, CJ, said in 1704, "If persons should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the Government, no Government can subsist; for it is very necessary for all Governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - America - 1901 - 714 pages
...of my own, but read to you the Words of a learned and upright Judge in a Case of the like Nature. ' To say that corrupt Officers are appointed to administer...Affairs, is certainly a Reflection on the Government. If People should not be called to account for possessing the People with an ill Opinion of the Government,... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 pages
...maladministered by corrupt persons, that are employed in such or such stations, either in the navy or army. To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Libel and slander - 1905 - 1020 pages
...any publication tending to beget an ill opinion of the Government is a criminal libel. " If persons should not be called to account for possessing the...with an ill opinion of the Government, no Government can subsist : for it is very necessary for all Governments that the people should have a good opinion... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1907 - 528 pages
...admission and confirmation of those words. He quoted with approval a dictum of Chief Justice Holt: "to say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer...affairs is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government,... | |
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