The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
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Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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If the legislature will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
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