Of Civil Government and TolerationCassell, 1905 - 192 páginas |
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... answer , each trans- gression may be punished to that degree , and with so much severity , as will suffice to make it an ill bargain to the offender , give him cause to repent , and terrify others from doing the like . Every offence ...
... answer , each trans- gression may be punished to that degree , and with so much severity , as will suffice to make it an ill bargain to the offender , give him cause to repent , and terrify others from doing the like . Every offence ...
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... answer- able for it to the rest of mankind . 14. ' Tis often asked as a mighty objection , Where are , or ever were there , any men in such a state of nature ? To which it may suffice as an answer at present : That since all princes and ...
... answer- able for it to the rest of mankind . 14. ' Tis often asked as a mighty objection , Where are , or ever were there , any men in such a state of nature ? To which it may suffice as an answer at present : That since all princes and ...
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... answer it at the great day , to the supreme Judge of all men . CHAPTER IV . OF SLAVERY . 22. THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth , and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man , but ...
... answer it at the great day , to the supreme Judge of all men . CHAPTER IV . OF SLAVERY . 22. THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth , and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man , but ...
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... answer that if it be difficult to make out property upon a supposition that God gave the world to Adam and his posterity in common , it is impossible that any man but one universal monarch should have any property upon a supposition ...
... answer that if it be difficult to make out property upon a supposition that God gave the world to Adam and his posterity in common , it is impossible that any man but one universal monarch should have any property upon a supposition ...
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... answer , Not so . The same law of nature that does by this means give us property , does also bound that property too . " God has given us all things richly ( 2 Tim . vi . 12 ) , is the voice of reason confirmed by inspira- tion . But ...
... answer , Not so . The same law of nature that does by this means give us property , does also bound that property too . " God has given us all things richly ( 2 Tim . vi . 12 ) , is the voice of reason confirmed by inspira- tion . But ...
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Página 10 - To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Página 11 - ... for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of one sovereign Master, sent into the world by His order and about His business; they are His property, whose workmanship they are made to last during His, not one another's pleasure.
Página 89 - And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject...
Página 89 - ... 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.
Página 11 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
Página 95 - For the legislators not being able to foresee and provide by laws for all that may be useful to the community, the executor of the laws, having the power in his hands, has by the common law of Nature a right to make use of it for the good of the society, in many cases where the municipal law has given no direction, till the legislative can conveniently be assembled to provide for it...
Página 60 - For, when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.
Página 55 - ... in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it ; and thus all private judgment of every particular member being excluded, the community comes to be umjnref "by settled standing rules, indifferent and the same to all parties...
Página 86 - And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government...
Página 128 - ... by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty...