 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
 | Jeff Weintraub, Krishan Kumar - Philosophy - 1997 - 408 pages
...the power of life and death. And since this power is the fundamental mark of political authority — "Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death" ^ — dependents and husbands/masters are indeed ultimately equal insofar as political power is concerned.... | |
 | Elizabeth Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 176 pages
..."father" of his domestic realm. Even Locke the rationalist, while asserting the difference between "a ruler of a commonwealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley," reaffirmed the relationship between politics and parenting by including his theories of child rearing... | |
 | Thomas D. Lynch - Political Science - 1997 - 506 pages
...viewed his coverage of the topic. Locke begins the Second Treatise with a discussion of political power. 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 P. George, Christopher Wolfe - Law - 2000 - 220 pages
...under these different Relations, it may help us to distinguish these Powers from one another, and shew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common-wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley." 41. Rawls, "Public Reason Revisited," p. 766 (emphasis added). 42. Ibid., p. 776. 43. Ibid. 44. Ibid.... | |
 | Richard Joseph Snader - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 358 pages
...Slave," and that, consequently, "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."18 Here and throughout the treatise, Locke's references to "slavery" suggest less the American... | |
 | Julius Morel - Social Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...Aspekten aufzugliedern, wobei er sich an die Herrschaftsdefinition von Locke hält , der schreibt: „Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penaltiesof death, and consequently all lesspenalties, for the regulatingand preservingof property,... | |
 | Menachem Lorberbaum - Religion - 2002 - 232 pages
...of his Second Treatise of Government, Locke suggests the following definition: "Political Power ... I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death" (chapter 1, 3). The focus of power in a polity is located in the agent empowered to put people to death... | |
 | Richard A. Matthew - Political Science - 2002 - 220 pages
...power, which, to the contemporary mind, probably looks more like a definition of political authority: 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... | |
 | Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn - History - 2002 - 268 pages
...theological end, is stark and, it should be noted, altogether congruent with Weber's understanding: "Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties" (Locke 1988, 268). The hangman's art, on this account, is definitive... | |
 | George M. Stephens - Law - 2002 - 224 pages
...the protector of the people, he felt it necessary to warn, at the outset, of its inherent dangers: "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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