 | Richard G. Stevens - History - 1997 - 410 pages
...Legislative can have no more than this. 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...to destroy, enslave or designedly to impoverish the subjects." The words "destroy," "enslave" and "impoverish" make one think of the words "life, liberty... | |
 | Duncan Ivison - Philosophy - 1997 - 258 pages
...their representatives: "[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" (2.I35).128 There is, however, another contour to political authority permeating all of Locke's... | |
 | Frederick Lee Morton - Canada - 2002 - 673 pages
...intervals, tho' it be the Supream Power in every Common-wealth; yet, Bounds of it, is limited to the publik good of the Society. It is a Power, that hath no other...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... | |
 | Friedrich Lohmann - Philosophy - 2002 - 482 pages
...preserved [...].« 147 Vgl. aaO, II, 135 (engl. S. 185; dt. S. 285): »It [sc. the legislative power] is a power that hath no other end but preservation,...to destroy, enslave or designedly to impoverish the subjects [...].« 148 Vgl. z. B. aaO, II, 131 (engl. S. 182; dt. S. 281): »And all this to be directed... | |
 | Alex Tuckness - Political Science - 2009 - 224 pages
...act for any other end than the one specified by that law. The "utmost bound" of the legislative power "is limited to the public good of the Society. It is a power that hath no other end but preservations." 1 Locke is making one broad claim (that the power of the government to pursue the public... | |
 | Nancy Lipton Rosenblum, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Robert C. Post - Philosophy - 2002 - 422 pages
...consist with the publick good) of every person in it." The legislative power is inherently limited: it "can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the Subjects."4' Whenever government exceeds its proper bounds, that is, "whenever the Legislators endeavor... | |
 | John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 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... | |
 | John Locke - Political Science - 2003 - 378 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....have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to * Two foundations there are which bear up public societies ; the one a natural inclination, whereby... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 444 pages
...Furthermore, it is a very limited surrender, since government should only concern itself with property issues; it is "a power that hath no other end but preservation,...destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects." Yet Locke has little faith that government will limit itself to such a narrow field. So... | |
 | Jonathan L. Gorman - Philosophy - 2003 - 244 pages
...single and "common established law and judicature". 12 The laws of that body are limited in that it "can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects; the obligations of the law of Nature cease not in society".13 The ultimate sovereignty lies... | |
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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. 
