 | 1791 - 612 pages
...of rude nature, (fays Mr. Burke,) there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in th;mfelvcs have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. But in fuch a di'lUuiion of an ancient fociety, as hath taken place in France, amonglt men fo diibanded,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing &s a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people...wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal ficYions by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement •was, is collected from... | |
 | History - 1795 - 688 pages
...lie fame. IN a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people...wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fanions by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement was, is coltecled from the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pages
...PEOPLE. In a fiate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the ' ! idea idea of a ^brporatioiti It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 402 pages
...of ages. When the supreme authority of the people is in question, before. we attempt to extend or to confine it, we ought to fix in our minds, with some...collective capacity. The idea of a people is the. idea idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement.... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...alone, and not bound by any of those ties of blood, affinity and language, which form the rudiments of a collective capacity. '- The idea of a people is the...like all other legal fictions, by common agreement." Indeed, is the social principle artificial ? Is the gift of articulate speech, which enables man to... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...New to the Old wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement." " In a state of rude nature, there is no such thing as a people !" I would fain learn in what corner of the earth, rude or civilized, men are to be found, who are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...people is in question, hefore we attempt to extend or to confine it, we ought to fix in our minda, with some degree of distinctness, an idea of what...rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A numher of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation.... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...in a state of rude nature, there is no such thing as a people. A number of men, in themselves, can have no collective capacity. The idea of a people...like all other legal fictions, by common agreement." " The Appeal from the New to the Old Whi?». NNN " In a state of rude nature there is no such thing... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...it is we mean, when we say, the PEOPLE ; ' and in fulfilment of this design, he lays it down, ' that in a state of rude nature, there is no such thing as a people. A number of men, in themselves, can have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation ; it is wholly artificial,... | |
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In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people, is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement. 
