...confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end w U{ [ mVA x է ɧV " u ɧTf M ? | ... w߬r & M l;t Y m o\d [ o * V?q R] } a N no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, "a liberty for every man to do what he lists:" (for who...

...This notion of law, Locke believed, fulfilled, rather than restrained, liberty. As he put it, 'the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve...where there is no law, there is no freedom.. . . for law,' Locke elaborated, 'in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free...

...interest, and prescribes no farther than it for the general good of those under that law. . . . The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve...beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is not freedom" (132). What one finds in Locke's description of the political society, the artificial...

...collective. Locke noted that there could be "no freedom" without a Social Compact of laws, because "liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be where there is no law."74 James Madison reflected that "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." But...

...of dealing with the world. Locke put it well when he wrote in his famous Second Treatise: "the end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." Or, to put it another way, the extent to which the liberal rule of law is acting according to its stated...

...the will of God but the maintenance of society via the preservation of individual freedom: "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom." 51 Despite using quasi-theological arguments (notably to refute the doctrine of the divine right of...

...Could they be happier without it, the Law, as a useless thing would of itself vanish. . . . 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. For Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence...

...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. (Two Treatises, 2.57) This conception of law is consistent...

...Laws are to be created and enforced that protect man's God-given rights. John Locke taught, "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."16 These laws are not to be founded upon the ideas of man or the vote of the majority but...

...book of reflections on life and the law, and they had a quote by John Locke. He said, 'The end of the law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.' I wanted to be part of that kind of thing." "And have you been?" He thought about all the big cases...