 | Brooks Adams, Spokane (Wash.) - Electronic books - 1910 - 198 pages
...itself a power to rule, by extemporary, arbitrary decrees; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorized judges. . . . "To this end it is that men give up all their natural power to the society which they enter into,... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Liberty - 1917 - 296 pages
...people by either, that is again and again implied by Locke. "The legislative, or supreme authority, ... is bound to dispense justice, and decide the rights of the subject by promulgating standing laws, and known authorized judges." "Those who are united into one body, and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1042 pages
...theorist of the Parliamentary Party, did not hesitate to say that even the legislature cannot rule by 'extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of itie subject by promulgating standing laws, and known authorized judges.' And Locke further declares... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 pages
...to itself a power to rule by extemporary, arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and to decide the rights of the subject by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorized judges.3 For the law of nature being unwritten, and so nowhere to be found but in the minds of men,... | |
 | Donald M. McAllister - Architecture - 1982 - 324 pages
...the lives and fortunes of the people. . . . Second, [it] cannot assume to its self a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense...rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws. . . . Thirdly, [it] cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. . .... | |
 | Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, David Gray Carlson - Law - 1992 - 428 pages
...assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary, arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense jusrice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws and known authorized judges." The prohibition of arbitrariness and legal particularism was the central pillar of good governments... | |
 | Andrew Altman - Law - 1993 - 226 pages
...to itself a power to rule by extemporary, arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and to decide the rights of the subject by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorized judges.9 And the importance of the rule of law to Locke's thinking is concisely formulated in his Letter... | |
 | R. C. van Caenegem - Law - 1995 - 352 pages
...Hence his thesis that 'the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense...promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges'. And again: 'For all the power the government has, being only for the good of society, as it ought not... | |
 | Michael W. Spicer - Political Science - 1995 - 138 pages
...life, or take away the life and property of another" (457). Rather, according to Locke, the legislature "is bound to dispense justice, and decide the rights...promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges" (458). Locke further believed in a separation of executive and legislative power. He observed that... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...it. 136. Secondly," The legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule, by d perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science;...partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the e authorised judges. For the law of nature being unwritten, and so no-where to be found, but in the minds... | |
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Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges. 
