| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 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... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2007 - 358 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 end but preservation. . . ." (Emphasis in the original.) This view of the scope of the legislative power was very influential... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...legislative power, so that the legislative can have no more than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds t profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe,...under that state of tyrannical thraldom, and inhu 3. "Two foundations there are which bear up public societies, the one a natural inclination, whereby... | |
| Michael J. Sandel - Law - 2007 - 428 pages
...than this. Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society.7 It is a power that hath no other end but preservation,...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... | |
| Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...lives and fortunes which are so much as possible to be preserved. . . ." In other words, the government "can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects."85 Although government is necessary, it is not something to be relished and encouraged. To... | |
| J. Thomas Wren - Political Science - 2007 - 423 pages
...power . . . but with this trust always to have it exercised only for the public weal', and leaders 'never have a right to destroy, enslave or designedly to impoverish the subjects'.71 Assuming the leaders honor this trust, the people are to remain subservient and quiescent.... | |
| Thomas Edwin Utley, Stuart Maclure - 296 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... | |
| Thomas Edwin Utley, John Stuart Maclure - Communism - 1957 - 296 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... | |
| Peter Curzon - Law - 1998 - 360 pages
...as to the implications of his advocacy of government with limited powers. Government, for him, has no other end but preservation, 'and therefore can...destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects'. The legal implications of this doctrine are far-reaching. It is the very right to enforce... | |
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