 | Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 pages
...Nature for hig rule. The liberty o" man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, hut that established, by consent, in the commonwealth;...of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislature shall enact, according to the trust put in it. Every body lias a property in his own person... | |
 | Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - Democracy - 1880 - 208 pages
...civil liberty is not much more satisfactory. "Civil libert}," he says, "is a condition wherein man is under no other legislative power but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth." This definition confuses the reader with notions of some imaginary commonwealth, where men and women... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1884 - 328 pages
...will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of Nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...Freedom, then, is not what Sir Robert Filmer tells us (OA, 55) : "A liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and _ to every one... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...entrusts to the community the task of securing and protecting his natural rights, and " the liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it." Such was the Whig doctrine of the seventeenth century. We may now_proceed Jx> consider the opinions... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...the trust put in it. Freedom then is not what Sir RF tells us, 0. A. 55. " a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not... | |
 | State Historical Society of Iowa - Constitutional history - 1907 - 502 pages
...Locke 'a second Treatise on Government, § 131 ; and compare § 22, where he declares: "Liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...established by consent in the commonwealth, nor under dominion of any will, or restraint of any law but what that legislative shall enact according to the... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1908 - 328 pages
...under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...or restraint of any law, but what that legislative power shall enact, according to the trust put in it." When Locke wrote, the modern distinction between... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - Political science - 1910 - 392 pages
..."Obedience to the law which we have prescribed to ourselves is liberty," Locke's sentence, " The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth."2 But Locke is speaking, according to his theory, of the actual or tacit consent of individuals... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - Constitutional history - 1911 - 500 pages
...strong statement of the conventional theory, it is stronger than Locke's definition. " The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what the legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it2." Sydney requires the assent of the people... | |
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative... 
