Frasi di Joseph Story

Joseph Story è stato un giurista e avvocato statunitense, incluso nella prima lista di statunitensi facenti parte della Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

A lui si deve l'elaborazione della locuzione diritto internazionale privato all'interno dell'opera Commentary on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic del 1834. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Settembre 1779 – 10. Settembre 1845
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“La milizia è la naturale difesa di un paese libero contro improvvise invasioni straniere, insurrezioni interne e usurpazioni domestiche di potere da parte dei sovrani. È contro una solida politica per un popolo libero mantenere grandi stabilimenti militari e eserciti in piedi in tempo di pace, sia dalle enormi spese con cui vengono assistiti, sia dai mezzi facili, che offrono a sovrani ambiziosi e senza principi, a sovvertire il governo o calpestare i diritti delle persone. Il diritto dei cittadini di tenere e portare armi è stato giustamente considerato, come il palladio delle libertà di una repubblica; poiché offre un forte controllo morale contro l'usurpazione e il potere arbitrario dei sovrani; e generalmente, anche se questi avranno successo in primo luogo, consentiranno alle persone di resistere e trionfare su di loro. Eppure, sebbene questa verità sembrerebbe così chiara, e l'importanza di una milizia ben regolata sembrerebbe così innegabile, non si può nascondere, che tra il popolo americano c'è una crescente indifferenza verso qualsiasi sistema di disciplina della milizia e una forte disposizione , dal punto di vista dei suoi oneri, per sbarazzarsi di tutte le normative. Come sia possibile mantenere le persone debitamente armate senza alcuna organizzazione, è difficile da vedere. Non c'è certamente nessun piccolo pericolo, che l'indifferenza può portare al disgusto e al disgusto al disprezzo; e quindi minare gradualmente tutta la protezione prevista da questa clausola della nostra Carta dei diritti nazionale.”

Joseph Story: Frasi in inglese

“Indeed, in a free government, almost all other rights would become utterly worthless, if the government possessed an uncontrollable power over the private fortune of every citizen.”

Joseph Story libro Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Volume 3, Joseph Story, Hilliard, Grey (1833), § 1784, p. 661

“If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.”

Joseph Story libro Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 2d ed. (1851), vol. 2, chapter 45, p. 617. This passage was not in the first edition, but in all later editions.

“The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Joseph Story libro Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), p. 708 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ennw5lvHmcoC&pg=PA708&dq=%22The+right+of+the+citizens+to+keep%22.

“He who seeks equity must do equity.”

Equity Jurisprudence, 1st ed. (1836), § 59.

“[O]ur constitutions of government have declared that all men are born free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are the right of enjoying their lives, liberties, and property, and of seeking and obtaining their own safety and happiness. May not the miserable African ask, "Am I not a man and a brother?"”

In 1819, as quoted in Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction https://books.google.com/books?id=Tpb7HAIhWHgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=9780199843282&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz1ILxqfLcAhVDnuAKHda9Ai0Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9780199843282&f=false (2012), by Allen C. Guelzo, Chapter One

“Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.”

Motto of the Salem Register. Adopted 1802. Reported in William W. Story's Life of Joseph Story, Volume I, Chapter VI.

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