Download or read book Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence written by Roscoe Pound and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... V. MASONIC LAW MAKING 1O idea is today more familiar than the idea of making law. Wherever any sort of sovereign authority exists, men take for granted that it will proceed to justify its existence by copious legislation and assume as a matter of course that the quantity of its legislative output is the measure of its efficiency. This was not always true. Indeed conscious law-making on any large scale is a wholly modern phenomenon not only in the state but in those human organizations which exist to conserve other than political values and secure other than political interests, but are organized along lines analogous to those which govern politically organized society. Hence by way of introduction it is worth while to give some account of the development of legislation in the legal systems of modern states. Five stages may be perceived in the development of legislation as the everyday agency of law-making: (1) unconscious legislation in the period of customary law, (2) declaratory legislation in the period when the traditional law is reduced to writing, (3) selection and amendment when by the political union of peoples with divergent customs it becomes necessary to choose in declaring the custom of the new whole, (4) conscious constructive law-making as an occasional expedient, at first to meet political exigencies, but gradually to effect important changes here and there in the legal system in great emergencies, and (5) habitual legislation as the ordinary agency of development, usually culminating in codification of the law as a whole. In the first stage of legal development, the stage of traditional modes of decision based upon repeated decisions by supposed divine inspiration, there is not a little unconscious law-making. The case in...
Download or read book Lectures on the Philosophy of Freemasonry written by Roscoe Pound and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Royal Arch Degree. 13. A Dictionary of Symbolic Masonry, the first of a long line of such dictionaries. 14. Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence. He also published a "Book of the Lodge," a sort of ritualistic manual similar to the monitors or manuals so well known today. Likewise he was a constant contributor to English and even to American Masonic periodicals. Probably no one not by profession a writer can show such a list, bearing in mind how many of the foregoing are books of the first order in their class. Unhappily Oliver's views of Masonic law were not in accord with those which prevailed in England in 1840. In consequence when in that year Dr. Crucefix, one of the most distinguished of nineteenth-century English Masons, was suspended by the Grand Lodge and retired from Masonic activity Oliver also incurred the displeasure of the authorities by claiming the right, though a Provincial Deputy Grand Master, to take part in a public demonstration in honor of Crucefix in which a large number of prominent Masons joined. This led to his losing his office by the action of the Provincial Grand Master and to his withdrawing from active connection with the Craft. But English Masons soon came to see the soundness of Oliver's views as to the independence which Masonry must allow to the individual in his belief and opinion as to what is Masonic law. Accordingly four years later nearly all the Masons in the kingdom joined in subscribing for a presentation of plate to Oliver in recognition of his great services to the Craft. But justice was not done to Oliver as it was to Preston possibly because Oliver was not the type of man to urge it for himself as Preston would have done. In consequence Oliver was out of touch with active...
Download or read book A Text Book of Masonic Jurisprudence written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Text Book of Masonic Jurisprudence written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence Being an Exemplification of the English Book of Constitutions Methodically Digested Under Appropriate Heads Together with a Summary View of the Laws and Principles of the Royal Arch written by George Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lecture at Lodge of Research No 218 A F and A Masons of Victoria Masonic Jurisprudence written by William Patterson White and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Test Book of Masonic Jurisprudence Illustrating the Written and Unwritten Laws of Freemasonary written by Albert Gallatin MacKey and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... Lodge are laid down in the installation service as follows: He is required to he "of good morals, of great skill, true and trusty, aud a lover of the whole fraternity." There is much significance in this language: it portrays the qualifications of a Master under the three-fold heads of moral, intellectual, and social. He is required, in the first place, to be " of good morals." The teacher of the principles of virtue and morality, which it is the design of Freemasonry to inculcate, should himself be, if not an admirable pattern, at least not a notorious transgressor of those principles; for, as a distinguished member of the craft (Dr. Townsend, the Deputy Grand Master of Ireland, ) has remarked: "The most elegant homily against those vices for which the preacher is distinguished, falls dead upon the ear; the most graceful eulogy of virtue is but disgusting in the lips of a man whose conduct gives the lie direct to his words; but he who teaches good by example, will ever be listened to with respect."* But the Master is not only a teacher of his brethren, but he is their representative to the world, and it becomes peculiarly his duty, by his own exemplary conduct, to impress the world at large with a favorable opinion of the institution in which he holds so high a position, and of which his own exemplary or unworthy conduct will be considered * Lecture on the duty of the Master Am. Quart. lien, of Freemamnry, vol. i. p. 202. Thus, too, Aristotle Bays, " he who is to govern (the uv) must be perfect in ( DEGREESdiKa apery) moral virtue."--PoL lib. i. cap. ziii. by the uninitiated as a fair exponent. Mankind will very naturally presume that the members of a moral institution would hardly confer so important a trust upon an immoral or licentious...
Download or read book Institutes of masonic jurisprudence an exemplification of the English book of constitutions methodically digested under appropriate heads together with a summary view of the laws and principles of the royal arch written by George Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principles of Masonic Law written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Principles of Masonic Law is a treatise on the constitutional laws, usages and landmarks of Freemasonry. The book is very informative and thorough, and it treats a wide range of topics in Masonic jurisprudence, providing a good insight to the overall governance of freemasonry. Freemasonry consists of fraternal organizations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons that from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The basic, local organizational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. These private Lodges are usually supervised at the regional level by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. The degrees of Freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or Fellow Craft, and Master Mason._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Download or read book The Masonic Jurisprudence of Texas written by Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principles of Masonic Law written by Albert G. Mackey and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1856 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws which govern the Institution of Freemasonry are of two kinds, unwritten and written, and may in a manner be compared with the “lex non scripta,” or common law, and the “lex scripta,” or statute law of English and American jurists. This book explains both kinds and provides deep insights on the ways masonic lives happen or don’t happen.
Download or read book A Text Book of Masonic Jurisprudence Fifth edition written by Albert Gallatin MACKEY and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Masonic Jurisprudence written by John W. Simons and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principles of Masonic Law written by Albert G. Mackey and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The division of wrongs, by the writers on municipal law, into private and public, or civil injuries and crimes and misdemeanors, does not apply to the jurisprudence of Freemasonry. Here all wrongs are crimes, because they are a violation of the precepts of the institution; and an offense against an individual is punished, not so much because it is a breach of his private rights, as because it affects the well-being of the whole masonic community. In replying to the question, "what are masonic crimes?" by which is meant what crimes are punishable by the constituted authorities, our safest guide will be that fundamental law which is contained in the Old Charges. These give a concise, but succinct summary of the duties of a Mason, and, of course, whatever is a violation of any one of these duties will constitute a masonic crime, and the perpetrator will be amenable to masonic punishment. But before entering on the consideration of these penal offenses, it will be well that we should relieve the labor of the task, by inquiring what crimes or offenses are not supposed to come within the purview of masonic jurisprudence. Religion and politics are subjects which it is well known are stringently forbidden to be introduced into Masonry. And hence arises the doctrine, that Masonry will not take congnizance of religious or political offenses. Heresy, for instance, is not a masonic crime. Masons are obliged to use the words of the Old Charges, "to that religion in which all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves;" and, therefore, as long as a Mason acknowledges his belief in the existence of one God, a lodge can take no action on his peculiar opinions, however heterodox they may be. In like manner, although all the most ancient and universally-received precepts of the institution inculcate obedience to the civil powers, and strictly forbid any mingling in plots or conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation, yet no offense against the state, which is simply political in its character, can be noticed by a lodge. On this important subject, the Old Charges are remarkably explicit. They say, putting perhaps the strongest case by way of exemplifying the principle, "that if a Brother should be a rebel against the State, he is not to be countenanced in his rebellion, however he may be pitied as an unhappy man; and, if convicted of no other crime, though the loyal Brotherhood must and ought to disown his rebellion, and give no umbrage or ground of political jealousy to the government for the time being, they cannot expel him from the lodge, and his relation to it remains indefeasible"
