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... Tracts on Political & Other Subjects - Page 26by Joseph Towers - 1796Full view - About this book
| Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 658 pages
...the , .. .. .,..,. . nujority cmi. the conlcnt or every individual, made a com- cimks tiie munity, they have thereby made that community one body, with...to aft as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority. For that, which a&s any community, being only the confent of the individuals... | |
| Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...majority have a right to aft, and conclude the reft. " For when any number of men have, by The »& of &« the confent of every individual, made' a community, they have thereby made that communky one body, with a power to ad as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...majority have a right to act and conclude the rest. £>6. For when any numher of men have, hy the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one hody, with a power to act as one hody, which is only hy the will and determination of ihe majority... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...his work on civil society, I be" leave to quote : " For when any number ot 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 tlie will and determination of the majority. For that which acts... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Mr. Locke, in his work ou civil government, says : "For where any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with R power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the MAJORITY; for that which... | |
| Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...compact implies a promise to be governed by the majority. " When any number of men, 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 * Locke's Works, (London, 1794), Vol.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...right to act and conclude the rest." Sec. 96 — <; For when any number of men have, by t hi? 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 ; for that which acts... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...majority have a right to act and 1 conclude the rest. 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 : for that which 2acts... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 596 pages
...majority have a right to act and conclude the rest. 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."1 That was Locke's Leviathan.... | |
| Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1882 - 292 pages
...When any number of men have, by the consent * Hallam's History of Literature, Vol. iii, pp. 438, 439. of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community a body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.... | |
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