| John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...any other hands : for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.... | |
| John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 514 pages
...may by right take when he pleases, to himself? § 141. Fourthly. The legislative cannot transfer they power of making laws to any other hands : for it being...delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
| Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...are so in themselves, f Mr. Locke's reasoning upon this head seems to be decisive. " The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. For it being a delegated power from the people, they, who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The people alone... | |
| William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...them." — ibid. 8, 5, 9. " The legislative cannot transfer the power of making Jaics to any oiher hands; for, it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...passage :— . The Legislature cannot transfer the power of making laws into other hands, for it heing but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth—which is by constituting... | |
| Esq. John Levy - Home rule - 1843 - 236 pages
...following judgment : — " The legislature (he says) cannot transfer the " power of making laws into other hands, for it being but a " delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass " it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of " the commonwealth, which is by... | |
| English periodicals - 1843 - 648 pages
...' Treatise upon Government ' : — " The Legislature cannot transfer the power of making laws into other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the Commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
| Daniel O'Connell - Ireland - 1844 - 1016 pages
...Government, I find : " The " Legislature (he says) cannot transfer the power of making laws into " other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they " who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
| Daniel O'Connell - Ireland - 1844 - 738 pages
...on government I find : — "The legislature (he says) cannot transfer the power of making laws into other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
| John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - Ireland - 1844 - 1008 pages
...Government, I find : '' The " Legislature (he says) cannot transfer the power of making laws into " other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they " who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can " appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... | |
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