To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit,... The Works of John Locke - Page 340by John Locke - 1828Full view - About this book
| John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...A Jlate alfo of equality, wherein all the power and jurifdidion is reciprocal, . no one O 2 having having more than another ; there, being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the fame fpecies and rank, promifcubufly born to all the fame advantages of nature, and the ufe of the... | |
| Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...depending upon the will of any other man; a ftate alfo of equality, wherein all the power and jurifdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another ; there...being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the fame fpecies and rank, promifcuoufly born to all the fame advantages of nature, and the ufe of the... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the hounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending...state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdistion is reciprocal, no one having more than another : there heing nothing inore evident, than... | |
| History - 1838 - 644 pages
...bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other men. — A State also of equality, wherein all the power and...jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another." — £>ann @. 206 »on ber SSe= grúnbung ber polittfdjen Sereine: „Men being by nature all free,... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man."a In perfect accordance with this definition, Blackstone says : " This natural liberty consists... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1856 - 396 pages
...to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think 'fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man."0 In perfect accordance with this definition, Blackstone says : " This natural liberty consists... | |
| Henry James Slack - Civilization - 1860 - 260 pages
...freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man." Now people naturally do not arrive at a state in which the laws of nature are even tolerably well carried... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 558 pages
...order all their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any man." It is a state wherein all are equal, — no one having a right to control another, or oppose... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 556 pages
...order all their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any man." It is a state wherein all are equal, — no one having a right to control another, or oppose... | |
| Vermont - Vermont - 1873 - 580 pages
...order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they shall think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man. (Locke.) A state, also, of equality wherein all power of legislation is reciprocal, no one having more... | |
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