 This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and 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...  Two Treatises on Civil Government - Page 242by John Locke - 1887 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1801 - 512 pages
...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...called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow for the dispatch... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 pages
...of prerogative acting against law, he reasons thus, ' For since in some governments the law-making I power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and too slow for the dispatch requisite to execution ; and because it is also impossible to foresee, and... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...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...called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow for the despatch... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 760 pages
...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...called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow for the dispatch... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 756 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 724 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 408 pages
...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,...against it, is that which is called prerogative." — (Part II. $ 1GO.) Again : " Prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting their rulers... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 418 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1842 - 484 pages
...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... | |
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