 | Alpheus Henry Snow - Colonies - 1902 - 640 pages
...appointed, lays it down as a fundamental maxim in all Governments: " That the Legislative is the joint power of every member of the society, given up to that person or assembly which is legislator; and that even the Executive, when vested in a single person, is to be considered as the representative... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...be absolutely arbitrary over the TT^es and fortunes of the people. For it being bftt the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person,...nature before they entered into society, and gave up to the community. For nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself; and nobody... | |
 | Henry Percy Farrell - Political science - 1917 - 242 pages
...the legislative as the good of the society shall require." Therefore the power of the legislative " can be no more than those persons had in a state of...entered into society and gave it up to the community," and " nobody has an absolute arbitrary power over himself, or over any other, to destroy his own life,... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...absolutely Arhitrary over the Lives and Fortunes of the People. For it being but the joynt 3 power of every Member of the Society given up to that Person,...those persons had in a State of Nature before they enter'd into Society, and gave up to the Community. For no Body can transfer to another more power... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 pages
...be, absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people; for it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person...of nature before they entered into society and gave up to the comn unity; for nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself, and nobody... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person...nature before they entered into society, and gave up to the community: for nobody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself; and nobody... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 1986 - 524 pages
...be absolutely Arbitrary over the Lives and Fortunes of the People. For it being but the joynt power of every Member of the Society given up to that Person,...those persons had in a State of Nature before they enter'd into Society, and gave up to the Community." Locke, Two Treatises, book 2, sec. 135. 46 Anon.,... | |
 | Jeffrie G. Murphy - Law - 1994 - 164 pages
...shall enact according to the trust put in it (22). For it [the legislative], being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person or assembly which is legislator, can be no more than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered into society, and gave... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people. For it being but the joint power S V up to the community. For no body can transfer to another more power than he has in himself; and no... | |
 | John Kleinig - Business & Economics - 1996 - 246 pages
...lives and fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every member of society . . . ; it can be no more than those persons had in a state...nature before they entered into society, and gave up to the community.10 And Rawls can say of liberal democracies that "political power, which is always... | |
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... Though the legislative, whether placed in one or more, whether it be always in being, or only by intervals, though it be the supreme power in every commonwealth; yet first, it is not, nor can possibly be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes... 
