 | John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 pages
...legislative power, so that the legislative can have no more than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.2 The obligations of the law of nature cease not in society but only in many cases are drawn... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...legislative power, so that the legislative can have no more than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects. The obligations of the law of nature cease not in society, but only in many cases are drawn... | |
 | James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...political society as the public good : 'Their Power in the utmost Bounds of it, is limited to the publick good of the Society. It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation' (2.135). Common good, good of society or community and good of the public are various synonyms he uses... | |
 | Ronald St John MacDonald, Douglas Millar Johnston - Law - 1983 - 1246 pages
...legislative power, so that the legislative can have no more than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.' 35. Locke, note 34 above, s. 151, at p. 76. 36. Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social... | |
 | Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng - Political Science - 2010 - 422 pages
...of the People. . . . [The legislative] Power in the utmost Bounds of it, is limited to the publick good of the Society. It is a Power, that hath no other...destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the Subjects [s. 135,4-5, 19-23]. Notice the clear presence here of the triple definition of lives (destroy),... | |
 | Miles W. Campbell, Miles E. Campbell, Niles R. Holt, William Thomas Walker - Study Aids - 1990 - 602 pages
...can have no more than this. Their power in the utmost bounds of it is limited to the public good of society. It is a power that hath no other end but...destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects..." —John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1690 Document 6 "Government cannot be... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - Business & Economics - 1994 - 284 pages
...rights. John Locke voiced this idea succinctly: Their [the legislature's] power in the utmost bounds of it is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects; the obligations of the Law of Nature cease not in society, but only in many cases are drawn... | |
 | Robert Wuthnow - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...one's natural right to the means of self-preservation: [The legislative] power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects. The obligations of the law of nature cease not in society, but only in many cases are drawn... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...legislative power, so that the legislative can have no more than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds es are not, on the whole, respected, is free, whatever...and unqualified. The only freedom which deserves subjects. The 7. The lawful power of making laws to command whole politic societies of men, belonging... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 356 pages
...legislative is a supreme, and may be called, in one sense, an absolute, but in none an arbitrary power. "It is limited to the public good of the society....destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects; for the obligations of the law of nature cease not in ' Locke's Essay on Civil Government,... | |
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Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to' the public good of the society. It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never * have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects. 
