 | Jeffrey H. Reiman - Philosophy - 1997 - 308 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.9 And Rawls can say of liberal democracies that "political power, which is always... | |
 | Richard Allen Epstein - Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution) - 2000 - 430 pages
...assemhly, which is legislator, it can he no more than those persons had in a state of nature hefore they entered into society, and gave it up to the community. For nohody can transfer to another more power than he has in himself; and nohody has an ahsolute arhitrary... | |
 | John Locke - Political Science - 2003 - 378 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 Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 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... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people. For it being but the joint power Passing over others, he will only remark that the...in the Union. 2. Congress is a single Legislature. up to the community. For no body can transfer to another more power than he has in himself; and no... | |
 | James Roland Pennock, John William Chapman - Political Science - 490 pages
...cannot be arbitrary, for the legislature holds just the joint power the individuals have given up. "It can be no more than those persons had in a state...of nature before they entered into society and gave up to the community, for nobody can transfer more power to another than he has in himself and nobody... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of individuals." "For being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person, or assembly, which is legislator," Locke explained, "it can be no more than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - Political Science - 2007 - 423 pages
...up to that person or assembly, which is legislator'; therefore government 'can be no more than those had in a state of nature before they entered into society, and gave up to the community: for no body can transfer to another more power than he has himself . . . and having... | |
 | Thomas Edwin Utley, John Stuart Maclure - Communism - 1957 - 296 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... | |
 | Thomas Edwin Utley, Stuart Maclure - 296 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... | |
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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... 
