Article VI – The law is...
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
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Art. VI – La legge è l'espressione della volontà generale, avendo tutti i cittadini diritto di concorrere alla sua formazione, personalmente o per rappresentanti; e debb' essere per tutti la stessa, o protegga o punisca. Tutti i cittadini, come uguali ai suoi occhi, sono del pari ammissibili a tutte le dignità, cariche, pubblici impieghi, secondo la loro capacità, e senza altra distinzione che quella delle virtù e dell'abilità.
Art. VI – La Ley es expresión de la voluntad general. Todos los ciudadanos tienen derecho a colaborar en su formación, sea personalmente, sea por medio de sus representantes. Debe ser igual para todos, sea para proteger o para castigar. Siendo todos los Ciudadanos iguales ante ella, todos son igualmente elegibles para todos los honores, colocaciones y empleos públicos, conforme a su capacidad, y sin ninguna otra distinción que la creada por sus virtudes y conocimientos.
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Quotes about Human rights:
Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article VII – No man can be accused, arrested nor detained but in the cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed. Those who solicit, dispatch, carry out or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders, must be punished; but any citizen called or seized under the terms of the law must obey at once; he renders himself culpable by resistance.
Quotes for: law
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article VIII – The law should establish only penalties that are strictly and evidently necessary, and no one can be punished but under a law established and promulgated before the offense and legally applied.
Quotes for: ability
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Quotes for: talent
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