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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 Ways of Judgement

Oliver O'Donovan - Political Science - 2008 - 347 pages
...pads 2.2.6-17. 25. Two Treatises of Government 5.27: "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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Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

Domhnall Mitchell, Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 448 pages
...passage from the Two Treatises on Government (1690): "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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How the Indians Lost Their Land

Stuart Banner - History - 2005 - 366 pages
...Locke's assertion that property rights arise from labor. "Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person" Locke asserted. "The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his."...
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The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought

Alessandro Roncaglia - Business & Economics - 2006 - 596 pages
...that land and all the lower creatures have been given to all men in common. He argued, however, that 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...
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Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics

Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl - Political Science - 2010 - 381 pages
...central to the nature of goodness itself — its foundation in choice. Cíjapfer J\[ine~ SELF-OWNERSHIP 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 hand, we may say are properly...
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips - History - 2006 - 916 pages
...general term. In chapter 5 of the same text he writes: "Though all 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." From this natural title to one's own person flow rights to freedom, to possessions...
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Verteidigung der Demokratie: Abhandlungen zur Demokratietheorie

Hans Kelsen - Law - 2006 - 430 pages
...appropriate also other things. And this means is man's labor: 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 | 87 | any right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work of his hands we may say are properly...
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Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality

Elizabeth Price Foley - History - 2008 - 303 pages
...that of John Locke. See LOCKE'S SECOND TREATISE, at 12 ("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."); id. at 57 (Individuals unite to form a government "for the mutual preservation...
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The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest

Ian Peddie - Music - 2006 - 262 pages
...Northwest independent music scene Kathleen McConnell 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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Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge

Ikechi Mgbeoji - Gardening - 2007 - 334 pages
...theory in terms of possessive individualism, arguing that "every man has a property in his own person. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say are properly his."59 Although the Lockean theory has influenced modern patent law, it does not explain the phenomenon...
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