 | Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 1998 - 238 pages
...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 state...all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one haying more than another ; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species... | |
 | Michael P. Zuckert - History - 1998 - 426 pages
...Independence and related American documents. Human beings, he says, are "naturally in ... a state ... of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another" (II 4). Equality is the natural or original condition of human beings, the condition prior to the institution... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein, A Epstein - Political Science - 2009 - 378 pages
...thought was its insistence that all individuals are free, equal, and independent in the state of nature, "wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another."3 In the eighteenth century, Jefferson appealed to "nature and nature's law" in the Declaration... | |
 | Norman E. Bowie, Robert L. Simon - Equality - 1998 - 284 pages
...possible, all humans are sufficiently alike to qualify as possessors. As John Locke puts it, "there [is] nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank . . . born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties should also be equal... | |
 | Radhika Mohanram - Social Science - 1999 - 272 pages
...(para 54). Locke makes a passionate argument that all men (and in extension all women) live in a state: of Equality, wherein all the Power and Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than one another: there being nothing more evident, than thai creatures of the same species and ranks promiscuously... | |
 | João Carlos Espada, Marc F. Plattner, Adam Wolfson - Philosophy - 2000 - 184 pages
..."what state all men are naturally in"; he argues that this is not only "a state of perfect freedom" but "a state also of equality, wherein all the power and...jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another."2 The connection between natural liberty and natural equality is clear. If men are not equal... | |
 | Sudipta Kaviraj, Sunil Khilnani - History - 2001 - 344 pages
...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 state...jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another.' And, as he goes on: That law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and... | |
 | Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner - Political Science - 2001 - 418 pages
..."what state all men are naturally in"; he argues that this is not only "a state of perfect freedom" but "a state also of equality, wherein all the power and...jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another."1 The connection between natural liberty and natural equality is clear. If men are not equal... | |
 | Randall G. Holcombe - Business & Economics - 2002 - 352 pages
...sovereign. Locke saw things differently. He believed that people were born into a state of nature, "A State also of equality, wherein all the Power and Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more power than another, . . . without Subordination of Subjection."26 People have natural rights, he argued,... | |
 | Jeremy Waldron - History - 2002 - 280 pages
...creation of the human person.'7 God created all of us in what was, morally speaking, "[a] state . . . of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another" (2nd T: 4), all of us lords, all of us kings, each of us "equal to the greatest, and subject to no... | |
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... a state of perfect 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. 
