Of Civil Government and TolerationCassell, 1905 - 192 páginas |
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... desire herein satisfied , unless my- self be careful to satisfy the like desire , which is un- doubtedly in other men , being of one and the same nature ? To have anything offered them repugnant to this desire , must needs in all ...
... desire herein satisfied , unless my- self be careful to satisfy the like desire , which is un- doubtedly in other men , being of one and the same nature ? To have anything offered them repugnant to this desire , must needs in all ...
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... desire them to resolve me by what right any prince or State can put to death or punish an alien , for any crime . he commits in their country . ' Tis certain their laws , by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will ...
... desire them to resolve me by what right any prince or State can put to death or punish an alien , for any crime . he commits in their country . ' Tis certain their laws , by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will ...
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... desire those who make this objection , to remember that absolute monarchs are but men , and if government is to be the remedy of those evils which necessarily follow from men's being judges in their own cases , and the state of nature ...
... desire those who make this objection , to remember that absolute monarchs are but men , and if government is to be the remedy of those evils which necessarily follow from men's being judges in their own cases , and the state of nature ...
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... desire to know what kind of government that is , and how much better it is than the state of nature , where one man commanding a multitude , has the liberty to be judge in his own case , and may do to all his subjects whatever he ...
... desire to know what kind of government that is , and how much better it is than the state of nature , where one man commanding a multitude , has the liberty to be judge in his own case , and may do to all his subjects whatever he ...
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... desire - a life fit for the dignity of man -therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us , as living single and solely by ourselves , we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellow- ship with others ; this ...
... desire - a life fit for the dignity of man -therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us , as living single and solely by ourselves , we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellow- ship with others ; this ...
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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...