Sentences with phrase «public weal»

The phrase "public weal" refers to the welfare or wellbeing of the public or society as a whole. It represents the overall benefit and interest of the community, including aspects like health, happiness, and prosperity for everyone. Full definition
A barbecue is usually given by the inhabitants of some rural district desirous of giving candidates an opportunity to state, that, if elected, all their energies will be devoted to the interests of their constituents and the public weal, and that they pledge themselves, that, when their tenure of office shall expire, they will restore the high trust committed to their hands unsullied, etc..
The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics are more favorable to the election of proper guardians of the public weal; and it is clearly decided in favor of the latter by two obvious considerations:
It can no longer be said that «copyright protects the form in which an idea is presented but not the idea itself» because private rights have confiscated content from the public weal and new and expanded rights have been bolted retrospectively onto existing works.
There is, alas, no prospect, because there are no means, of his being required to pay back to the public weal the cost of his recalcitrance.
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