This preposterous doctrine, that "ignorance of the law excuses no one," is asserted by courts because it is an indispensable one to the maintenance of absolute power in the government.
The disciple of Socrates was too deeply affected by these popular insults; but the monarch, endowed with a quick sensibility, and possessed of absolute power, refused his passions the gratification of revenge.
It created among Englishmen a lasting hostility to absolute power, whether exercised by King, Parliament, Protector, or army.
Absolute power, which destroys weaker men, with Augustus brought out the nobler elements of character.
There were not in this assembly, as in the preceding, partisans of absolute power and of privilege.
A palace and a hell, a grim monument to regal egoism, created to minister to the inflated vanity of a despot, an eternal warning to mankind that the abuse of absolute power is an accursed thing.
But how were the divided opinions of men to melt together, and where in the State was to be placed absolute power?
This was the fair pretense; but the true design was, to deliver all into the hands of Pompey, and give him an absolute power.
At this period, when the Consulate for life was only in embryo, flattering counsels poured in from all quarters, and tended to encourage the First Consul in his design of grasping at absolute power.
Everything now seemed to concur in securing his accession to absolute power.
By the presence of emigrants who acknowledged nothing short of absolute power, he thought he might paralyse the influence of the Royalists of the interior; he therefore granted all such emigrants permission to return.
He therefore employed great precaution in dealing with the susceptibilities of the Republicans, taking care to inure them gradually to the temperature of absolute power.
I do not here propose to enter upon any discussion of principles, with the apostles of absolute power; as applied to France and our own time, experience, and a very overwhelming experience, has supplied an answer.
According to them, absolute power, legitimate in itself alone, was the only form of government that suited France.
Their passivity is implied in the very idea of absolute power.
I am far from condemning, in cases of extreme exigency, the assumption of absolute power in the form of a temporary dictatorship.
That the pride of absolute power should be mortified, that endeavors should be made to overcome and to suppress that resistance when it is too isolated to avail, I understand.
Democratic {158} government has its peculiar dangers, and it may be corrupted by absolute power no less than despotism or aristocracy.
The fidelity of Parliament to the new theory was once more seriously tested in 1853, when the Whigs were no longer in absolute power, and the government was in the hands of a coalition of Whigs and Peelites.
In his Present Discontents Burke had described clearly enough the consequences of absolute power, the corruption of the governor and the oppression of the governed.
There is an inevitable tendency in human nature to deteriorate in the enjoyment of absolute power.
The Anglo-Americans are the first nations who, having been exposed to this formidable alternative, have been happy enough to escape the dominion of absolute power.
This double character of the French Revolution is a fact which has been adroitly handled by the friends of absolute power.
Those who dread the license of the mob, and those who fear the rule of absolute power, ought alike to desire the progressive growth of provincial liberties.
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