reign of law

The reign of law allows a fair range of liberty.

Bourdeaux demands a reign of Law and Respectability, meaning Girondism, with emphasis.

It was blasphemous, he argued, to suppose that the Author of nature would break through a reign of law He had Himself established.

Many men of that time had the dream of unifying the Hundred Kingdoms and bringing a reign of law into the anarchy of those days.

On his accession Henry VII was faced with the task of restoring the reign of law in the forests as elsewhere.

The Constitution of Montenegro describes the state as a "civic, democratic, ecological state of social justice, based on the reign of Law."

The dreary and dragging ages of bloodshed and disorder and oppression will give place to peace and order and the reign of law.

Settle down into a reign of Law and Liberty; according as the habits, persuasions and endeavours of the educated, monied, respectable class prescribe?

The popular interpretation of the insurgency was that Pugachev's men followed him out of the desire to free themselves from the oppression of Catherine's reign of law.

The book The Reign of Law by the Duke of Argyll argued that beauty with no obvious utility, such as exotic birds' plumage, proved divine design.

By the nineteenth century the reign of law was an attractive idea to those inside the sciences and out; but the laws of nature had come to seem not merely unchanging but also inevitable.

A monarchien believing in a constitutional monarchy for France, Chénier believed that the Revolution was already complete and that all that remained to be done was the inauguration of the reign of law.

And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

After Darwin's publication, George Campbell published a book in 1867 titled, The Reign of Law, in which he argued that the complexity of this species implied that it was created by a supernatural being.

It meant the establishment of an empire to which no limit of time or space was set, and in which the human race would find ordered peace, settled government, material prosperity, the reign of law and the commonwealth of freedom.

On a cool estimate, we cannot but see reason to congratulate ourselves that it has given way in modern times to the reign of law, and that the civil magistrate, if less picturesque, has taken the place of the mailed champion.

In a general way, the reign of law and order in the movements of the heavenly bodies was recognized, and indeed must have exercised an influence at an early period in leading to the rise of a methodical divination that was certainly of a much higher order than the examination of an animal's liver.

The Duke of Argyll had thrown down a challenge with his book The Reign of Law, which collected criticisms of the Origin and put forward theories of divine design and providential law in a way that struck Darwin as "very well written, very interesting, honest, & clever & very arrogant".