I hold it to be impracticable; and from this I infer, that its security, whatever fine declarations may be inserted in any constitution respecting it, must altogether depend on public opinion, and on the general spirit of the people and of the government.[3] And here, after all, as is intimated upon another occasion, must we seek for the only solid basis of all our rights.
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS. The several bills of rights in Great Britain form its Constitution, and conversely the constitution of each State is its bill of rights.
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the
right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
"Quite
right!" agreed General Ivolgin in a loud voice.
"You were
right, after all," he confessed, with a sheepish grin that sat incongruously on his stern, Indian-like features.
It was what I may call the aristocratic ethic or the master ethic.* They talked in large ways of policy, and they identified policy and
right. And to me they talked in fatherly ways, patronizing my youth and inexperience.
When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the
rights of other citizens.
SOCRATES: I have told him whom I supposed to be the teachers of these things; but I learn from you that I am utterly at fault, and I dare say that you are
right. And now I wish that you, on your part, would tell me to whom among the Athenians he should go.
The better to follow this narrative, we shall call the gallery leading from the stairs to the eastern window, the "
right" gallery and the gallery quitting it at a
right angle, the "off-turning" gallery (winding gallery in the plan).
Many a one, also, waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs; a toothless mouth hath no longer the
right to every truth.
I know not of any such law, nor of any
right which can be derived from it.
If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up
right along, year in and year out, and do it
right, and the way it ought to be done.
Just before I came into your kingdom, I saw you dancing from left to
right, and then from
right to left, with Seven Men and a Woman in your immediate proximity on the left, and eight Men and two Women on your
right.
It seems, then, requisite for the establishment of a state, that all, or at least many of these particulars should be well canvassed and inquired into; and that virtue and education may most justly claim the
right of being considered as the necessary means of making the citizens happy, as we have already said.
The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a
right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought.