“If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.” IfsMindKindReasonDoneLawUniverseLeftCommonCitizensConstitutionReasoningUndoneCommonwealth Author:Marcus Aurelius
“The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.” PeopleWantYearsLastsLawImpossibleWorstConcernPrisonDemocraticRateMeritProvenAmbiguityAmbiguousCommonwealthIncarcerationDemocratic Leadership Author:Bill Vaughan
“If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.” IfsMenNeedsWellsGovernmentMightWould BeLawJusticeCommonMankindObservationAweMultitudesConsentLaws Of NatureCommonwealthSubjection Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
“The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.” BookPhilosophyLawWealthCommonMoralOpinionAuthorityInterpretationLaws Of NatureCommonwealthMoral Philosophy Author:Thomas Hobbes
“Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.” MenCountryWholeAbleLawSufferingDangerousColorSakeCheatHypocriteCommonwealthProfaneHypocriticalPretender Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.” WellsStatesWholeWisdomLawPoliticsIndividualCausesEconomyGroupsOughtInstitutionsStructureAdministrationWell BeingLiberalismSchemesGoverningCommonwealth Book:On the Condition of Workers Source: On the Condition of Workers