...may be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. §. 160. This power to act according to discretion, for the...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually...

...be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. § IGO. Tliis power to act according to discretion for the public...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually...

...and governments, viz. that as much as may be all the members of the society are to be preserved. " This power to act according to discretion, for the...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always in being, and is usually...

...and governments, viz. that as much as may be all the members of the society are to be preserved. " This power to act according to discretion, for the...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is tlnt which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always...

...that hath the executive power, to be ordered by him as the public good and advantage shall require. This power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without the prescription of law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." Locke did not stop there,...

...dangerous latitude for a constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion for the public good without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." This however is not by any means a good definition in the eyes of a lawyer ; and the word, being merely...

...his Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good,...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." — (Part II. $ 1GO.) Again : " Prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting...

...his Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good,...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative."—(Part II. $ 160.) Again: " Prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting their...

...constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion I for the public good without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." This, however, is not by any means a good definition in the eyes of a lawyer ; and the word, being...

...annihilated in England, by the late Eeform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be "A power of acting according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." The reader will find the author's observations on this subject in his eleventh chapter ; but the reasonings...