Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Lockeprinted MDCLXXXVIIII reprinted, the sixth time, by A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers [and 16 others in London], 1764 - Liberty - 416 pages |
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... hath been taken to file and polish them . § . 2. If any one think I take too much liberty in fpeaking fo freely of a man , who is the great champion of abfolute power , and the idol of those who worship it ; I beseech him to make this ...
... hath been taken to file and polish them . § . 2. If any one think I take too much liberty in fpeaking fo freely of a man , who is the great champion of abfolute power , and the idol of those who worship it ; I beseech him to make this ...
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... hath , no inferior power of man can limit , nor make any law of prescription against them . Obfervations , 158 . The fcripture teaches , that fupreme power was originally the father , without any limitation . Obfervations , 245 ...
... hath , no inferior power of man can limit , nor make any law of prescription against them . Obfervations , 158 . The fcripture teaches , that fupreme power was originally the father , without any limitation . Obfervations , 245 ...
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... hath been fince the creation , p . 13. Do- minion of life and death , making war , and con- cluding peace , p . 13. Adam and the patriarchs had abfolute power of life and death , p . 35- Kings , in the right of parents , fucceed to the ...
... hath been fince the creation , p . 13. Do- minion of life and death , making war , and con- cluding peace , p . 13. Adam and the patriarchs had abfolute power of life and death , p . 35- Kings , in the right of parents , fucceed to the ...
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... hath the power of the fupreme father , Obfervations , p . 223. It was God's ordinance that the fupremacy should be unlimited in Adam , and as large as all the acts of his will ; and as in him fo in all others that have fupreme power ...
... hath the power of the fupreme father , Obfervations , p . 223. It was God's ordinance that the fupremacy should be unlimited in Adam , and as large as all the acts of his will ; and as in him fo in all others that have fupreme power ...
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... hath be given to the children of men , which shew the title comes from fatherhood . § . 22. Before I examine this argument , and the text on which it is founded , it is necef- fary to defire the reader to obferve , that our author ...
... hath be given to the children of men , which shew the title comes from fatherhood . § . 22. Before I examine this argument , and the text on which it is founded , it is necef- fary to defire the reader to obferve , that our author ...
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Page 27 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 27 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 217 - And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting is thought his who pursues her during the chase. For being a beast that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession, whoever has employed so much labour...
Page 217 - It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c. makes a right to them, then any one may engross as much as he will. To which I 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,
Page 214 - The fruit or venison which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his (ie a part of him) that another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 197 - ... what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint. For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment.
Page 320 - Fourthly, the legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 384 - Every one is at the disposure of his own will when those who had by the delegation of the society the declaring of the public will are excluded from it, and others usurp the place who have no such authority or delegation.
Page 300 - I say that every man that hath any possession or enjoyment of any part of the dominions of any government doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government during such enjoyment as any one under it...