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" Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. "
Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ... - Page 145
by Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 523 pages
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VI (Advance in Knowledge 1650-1800)

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 pages
...before it can do him any good for the support of life. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say,...
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Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...the locus classicus of Locke on justice in acquisition: Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say,...
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The Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880: Technology, Politics, and ...

Howard Schweber - Political Science - 2004 - 314 pages
...formal requirements, legal fictions, and an array of 1 "Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a 'property' in his own 'person'" (Locke, 1690: 130). overlapping, inconsistent rules that made the adjudication of an individual case...
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The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America

Lee Ward - History - 2004 - 478 pages
...individual's body and the actions of that body. Locke claims: Though the Earth, and all infetior Creatures he common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Petson. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands,...
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The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law: Property, Rights and Nature

Sean Coyle, Karen Morrow - Law - 2004 - 245 pages
...as artefacts, into the realm of 'one's own.' The world is held in common by all men, Locke observed, 'yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself.'112 In tune with earlier versions of the possessive theory, Locke extended...
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Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction

Janice Carlisle - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 238 pages
...importance of CB Macpherson's conception of "possessive individualism": as Locke puts it, when a man owns himself, "the Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands," he becomes an individual.1 By the i86os for some men, however, such simple bases for individuation...
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Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America's Sacred ...

Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola - Religion and politics - 2005 - 368 pages
...American provincial version of the Enlightenment philosophes. John Locke believed that each individual has "a property in his own person: this nobody has...and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."45 Among the founders of the American Republic who studied him, Locke's teaching on slavery and...
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Savage State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality

Edward J. Martin, Rodolfo D. Torres - Business & Economics - 2005 - 200 pages
...earn in a free and competitive market. John Locke states: Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men. yet every man has a property...person. This nobody has a right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then he removes...
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Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market

Mark J. Cherry - Medical - 2005 - 288 pages
...interpretation. For example, Locke affirms that "every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say are properly his.'02 This natural authority of persons over themselves and their property is expressed within the...
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Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations

Kenneth R. Himes, Lisa Sowle Cahill - Philosophy - 2005 - 580 pages
...grant the right to property. Rather, according to Locke, Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a "property" in his own "person." This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labor" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly...
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