Essays in the Law

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Macmillan and Company, limited, 1922 - 303 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 84 - 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 defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.
الصفحة 100 - People are not so easily got out of their old forms as some are apt to suggest. They are hardly to be prevailed with to amend the acknowledged faults in the frame they have been accustomed to.
الصفحة 94 - ... not without reason that he seeks out and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the general name property.
الصفحة 89 - Men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of Nature.
الصفحة 95 - In all cases, whilst the government subsists, the legislative is the supreme power. For what can give laws to another must needs be superior to him; and since the legislative is no otherwise legislative of the society but by the right it has to make laws for all the parts and...
الصفحة 39 - Romae, alia Athenis — alia nunc, alia posthac ; sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immortalis continebit ; unusque erit communis quasi magister...
الصفحة 94 - ... though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.
الصفحة 172 - They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls, neither can they appear in person, but by attorney 33 H.
الصفحة 98 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
الصفحة 93 - Thus, whether a Family by degrees grew up into a Commonwealth, and the Fatherly Authority being continued on to the elder Son, every one in his turn growing up under it, tacitly submitted to it, and the easiness and equality of it not offending any one, every one acquiesced, till time seemed to have confirmed it, and settled a right of Succession by Prescription: or whether several Families, or the Descendants of several Families, whom...

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