But these proposals will transform the universal right to justice into a commercial privilege.
To an increasing degree, citizens of the consumer state seem to be perceiving their ability to turn upon their manipulators, to place widespread abuses of commercial privilege under the prohibition of laws that genuinely do protect the public, and, in effect, to give back to the people a sense of controlling their own lives.
In each case the foreign powers were victorious and gained commercial privileges and legal and territorial concessions in China.
He yielded, however, to the towns of the Hanseatic League and restored their commercial privileges in Scandinavia, despite the protests of Danish merchants.
From these two incidents, Qing political influence and commercial privileges emerged much stronger, though Japan's trade in Korea far surpassed that of China in the late 1880s.
A merchant as well as a statesman, he obtained important commercial privileges from the Byzantine emperors Leo V the Armenian and Michael II.
He infused new life into his party, for instance, by campaigning vigorously for unrestricted reciprocity, the grant of mutual commercial privileges, with the United States.
In return for it, Lübeck extorted far-reaching commercial privileges, and it was to be one of Gustav's main concerns to emancipate his country from its dependence on his former backers.
By the terms of the treaty, Russia obtained the fortresses on the coast of the Sea of Azov, the area between the Dnieper and Bug rivers, and navigation and commercial privileges in the Ottoman Empire.
A medieval borough with a castle (now in ruins) dating from about 1126, the town of Newport enjoyed commercial privileges conferred by various charters, such as that of 1385.
Financially weak because of his wars against Sweden and land purchases in Schleswig and Holstein, Christian became dependent on the Hanseatic League, a north German trading confederation, and granted the league generous commercial privileges.
