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" 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 193
by John Locke - 1764 - 416 pages
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John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...of fire and faggot in this and hell-fire in the other world. LIBERALISM IN POLITICS 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...
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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...distinguish these Powers one from another, and shew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common- wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley. 3...Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties, for the Regulating and Preserving of Property, and of employing the...
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Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer

John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 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...
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The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General ...

John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 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, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently...
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A Discourse on Property: John Locke and His Adversaries

James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...1.1.10; Cumberland: p. 16). This, in turn, completes Locke's definition of political power (2.3) : 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...
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Spinoza en De La Court

H. W. Blom - Political science - 1981 - 20 pages
...van de kant der onderdanen met zieh meebrengt". Deze juridische predilectie vinden we ook bij Locke: „Political Power then I take to be a Right of making laws with Penalties of Death"60. Het gaat in de Treatises dan ook om het onderscheid van legit i em с en t у ran nie ke...
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Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain

Richard A. Epstein - Law - 1985 - 380 pages
...can be preserved in form and enhanced in value by the exercise of political power, defined by Locke "to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force...
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The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17Th-Century England ...

Gordon J. Schochet - History - 326 pages
...under these different Relations, it may help us to distinguish these Powers one from another, and shew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common-wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley.5 The distinctions between patriarchal and political authority were evident from their varying...
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Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives

Susan Mendus - Philosophy - 1988 - 280 pages
...the characteristic means at its disposal. In the Second Treatise, he tells us: 'Political power ... I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death.' u Similarly, in the Letter on Toleration he distinguishes the means available to the magistrate from...
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John Locke's Liberalism

Ruth W. Grant - Political Science - 1991 - 230 pages
...a criterion of legitimacy other than force and violence is to define political power so as to "shew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common-wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley" (aT.a). However, the central issue here is no longer the distinction between a king and a father, political...
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