 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, bnt~lo preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states...created beings capable of laws, where there is no lawthere is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others ; which cannot... | |
 | Alfred Tuttle Williams - Bentham, Jeremy - 1907 - 108 pages
...restraints and constraints imposed by certain elements within society. "The end of law," says Locke, "is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."* State activity is therefore for the promotion, not the curtailment of freedom. True, its method is... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint...violence from others, which cannot be where there is no law ; and is not, as we are told, "a liberty for every man to do what he lists ". For who could... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 pages
...Confinement, which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others, which cannot be where there is no law... | |
 | Robert Morrison MacIver - Political science - 1926 - 528 pages
...itself has meaning. ' The obligations of the law of nature cease not in society.' ' The end of the law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.' So Locke develops the inherent logic of contract. The purpose of the state, as it appears to the reason... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Political science - 1926 - 458 pages
...subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow their own." The end of the law, in short, is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom, which is almost identical with the doctrine of Kant, that law is merely the sum of the conditions (negative),... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - Public health - 1927 - 276 pages
...stated by John Locke (Two Treatises on Government, 1821, p. 232). He wisely pointed out that the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom ; and he added : " That ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in from bogs and precipices."... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 530 pages
...capable of definition, because it signifies not so much a theory as a condition. Locke says that the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom, and where there is no law there is no freedom. 8 8 Somers says that when a people have no assurance... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - Jurisprudence - 1928 - 172 pages
...confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...all the states of created beings, capable of laws, 2i« Sandburg 's Life of Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 182. 217 Treatises on Civil Government, book 2, sec. 57.... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - Jurisprudence - 1928 - 174 pages
...confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...violence from . others, which cannot be where there is no law; and is not, as we are told, 'liberty for every man to do what he lists.' For who could be free,... | |
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So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For ' in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. 
