 | Richard G. Stevens - History - 1997 - 410 pages
...says, "Secondly, the Legislative, or Supream Authority, cannot assume to itself a power to Rule by extemporary Arbitrary Decrees, but is bound to dispense...the Subject by promulgated standing Laws and known Authoris'd Judges." But this is clearly formal or procedural. Here all words in the formula are interchangeable.... | |
 | Trevor R. S. Allan - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...impersonal rules: 'the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense...the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges'.1 It is essential that there should be an independent judiciary to ensure that the... | |
 | Alex Tuckness - Political Science - 2009 - 224 pages
...the legislature. "The Legislative, or Suprem Authority, cannot assume to its self a power to Rule by extemporary Arbitrary Decrees, but is bound to dispense...the Subject by promulgated standing Laws, and known Authoris'd Judges" (2.136). Locke goes on to contrast the state of nature where each person is "Judge,... | |
 | Frederick Lee Morton - Canada - 2002 - 673 pages
.... . . Secondly, The Legislative, or Supream Authority, cannot assume to its self a power to Rule by extemporary Arbitrary Decrees, but is bound to dispense...the Subject by promulgated standing Laws, and known Authoris'd Judges. For the Law of Nature being unwritten, and so no where to be found but in the minds... | |
 | Friedrich Lohmann - Philosophy - 2002 - 482 pages
...aber »within the bounds of the law of Nature«. 137 Vgl. aaO, II, 136 (engl. S. 186; dt. S. 286): »For the law of Nature being unwritten, and so nowhere to be found but in the minds of men [...].« 138 Vgl. aaO, II, 12 (engl. S. 123; dt. S. 207: »[...] the municipal laws of countries, which... | |
 | Peter R. Anstey - Philosophy, British - 2003 - 232 pages
...arbitrary rule: The Legislative, or Supream Authority, cannot assume to its self a power to Rule by extemporary Arbitrary Decrees, but is bound to dispense...the Subject by promulgated standing Laws, and known Authoris'd Judges. (TTII.xi. 136, p. 376) As Locke states here, the idea of equal or impartial treatment... | |
 | John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 pages
...legislative, or supreme authority, cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees,f but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgating standing laws, and known authorized judges. For "Two foundations there are which bear... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 2004 - 176 pages
...it. 136. Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense...rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, 3 and known authorised judges. For the law of Nature being unwritten, and so nowhere to be found but... | |
 | Matthew H. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2004 - 368 pages
...repair these marked inadequacies, governmental institutions had to emerge. Such institutions would "dispense Justice, and decide the Rights of the Subject by promulgated standing Laws, and known Authoris'd Judges" (TTG, §136, emphasis in original). By enacting and promulgating a set of laws,... | |
 | Beau Breslin - Law - 2006 - 292 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." The legislature, in other words, cannot be left to follow its own will, for as Locke notes, no man... | |
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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. 
