 Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the...  Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Locke - Page 193by John Locke - 1764 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1890 - 1148 pages
...somebody being voted to the tree • The following passages complete the expression of Locke's meaning : ' Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently of all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing;... | |
 | Christian sociology - 1891 - 626 pages
...we find a safer description of the end of government than is given later on : — "Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 440 pages
...their inquiries. Locke begins with a definition of his subject — political power. This, he says, 'I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy - 1892 - 382 pages
...quarter of the seventeenth century) constitute a theory of a constitutional monarchy. " Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property [/. e., "lives, liberty,... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Economics - 1893 - 310 pages
...we find a safer description of the end of government than is given later on :— " Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating 1 Cf. Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...these powers one from another, and show the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth, a faiher of a family, and a captain of a galley. 3. Political...right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 pages
...under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, and show the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth,...right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | Hartley Withers - Finance - 1917 - 138 pages
...Chapter I of his Essay concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government he says : " Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties, for the regulating and preserving of Property, and of employing the... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Political science - 1926 - 458 pages
...Law is Contradictio in adjecto." Locke defines the object of his enquiry to be, " Political Power ... I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all Penalties, for the regulating and preserving of Property, and of employing the Force... | |
 | Mathematics - 1924 - 854 pages
...in un passo poco noto del capitolo introduttivo al libro secondo de' suoi saggi : * Politicai power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently ali less penalties, for thè regulating and preserving of property, and of employing thè... | |
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