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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. "
Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest and raising ... - Page 364
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James Madison and the Future of Limited Government

John Curtis Samples - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
...other ways offering different approaches to political morality and justice, were in agreement: "the end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...violence from others which cannot be, where there is no Law: But Freedom is not, as we are told, A Liberty for every Man to do what he lists: (For who could...
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Corporate Governance: An Essential Guide for South African Companies

Ramani Naidoo - Corporate governance - 2002 - 226 pages
...pieces of legislation and the severe penalties for non-compliance imposed upon errant companies. The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke, English philosopher, 1632-1704 FORMATION, TYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPANIES The governance...
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Locke and the Legislative Point of View: Toleration, Contested Principles ...

Alex Tuckness - Political Science - 2009 - 224 pages
...was that legitimate law does not restrict but rather increases the freedom of the subject. "The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...Laws, where there is no Law, there is no Freedom. . . . Freedom is not, as we are told, A Liberty for every Man to do what he lists ..." (Treatises,...
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Zwischen Naturrecht und Partikularismus: Grundlegung christlicher Ethik mit ...

Friedrich Lohmann - Philosophy - 2002 - 482 pages
...nature all free, equal, and independent [...].« 161 Vgl. aaO, II, 57 (engl. S. 143f; dt. S. 234): »For liberty is to be free from restraint and 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. < [...] But a liberty...
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Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction

Tudor Jones - Political Science - 2002 - 244 pages
...liberty and his natural obligation to respect the same right in others. For, as Locke argued, 'the end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom'." Writing against the historical background of seventeenth-century England. I.ocke was concerned in particular...
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The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom

Nancy J. Hirschmann - Political Science - 2009 - 312 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, . . . where there is no law there is no Freedom. (Second Treatise 347-48) On my reading of Locke's...
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Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America

Dwight D. Allman, Michael D. Beaty - Philosophy - 2002 - 200 pages
...It further implied that liberty is prior to authority — that is, that the purpose of authority and law is "not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom" (2T: 57). Finally, it implied that rights are prior to duties in that our duties are to respect the...
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Australia Reshaped: 200 Years of Institutional Transformation

Geoffrey Brennan, Francis G. Castles - Business & Economics - 2002 - 316 pages
...conviction out? The answer is clear: yes and no. I begin with 'yes' and move on to 'no'. Yes The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. John Locke My primary text in this matter is David Neal's excellent book, The Rule of Law in a Penal...
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Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress

Cato Institute, Edward H. Crane, David Boaz - Political Science - 2003 - 718 pages
...primary inspiration of the American revolutionaries, argued in his Second Treatise on Government: The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...violence from others, which cannot be, where there is no Law: But Freedom is not, as we are told, A Liberty for every Man to do what he lists: (For who could...
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Locke: Political Writings

John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 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. But freedom is not, as we are told, 'a liberty for every man to do what he lists', for who...
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