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 - 416 pages |
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... law of prescription against them . Obfervations , 158 . The fcripture teaches , that fupreme power was originally the father , without any limitation . Obfervations , 245- * larmine , p . 8. and , by a victory 6 OF GOVERNMENT .
... law of prescription against them . Obfervations , 158 . The fcripture teaches , that fupreme power was originally the father , without any limitation . Obfervations , 245- * larmine , p . 8. and , by a victory 6 OF GOVERNMENT .
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... fupreme jurifdiction , p . 19 . kingly power is by the law of God , so it hath no inferior law to limit it ; Adam was lord of all , p . 40. The father of a family governs by no other law , than by his own will , p . 78 . The fuperiority ...
... fupreme jurifdiction , p . 19 . kingly power is by the law of God , so it hath no inferior law to limit it ; Adam was lord of all , p . 40. The father of a family governs by no other law , than by his own will , p . 78 . The fuperiority ...
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... 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 , Observations , p . 245 ...
... 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 , Observations , p . 245 ...
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... fupreme power is fettled in the fatherhood , and limited to one kind of government , that is , to monarchy . For let his premises be what they will , this is al- ways the conclufion ; let rule , in any text , be but once named , and ...
... fupreme power is fettled in the fatherhood , and limited to one kind of government , that is , to monarchy . For let his premises be what they will , this is al- ways the conclufion ; let rule , in any text , be but once named , and ...
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... fupreme power was fettled and founded by God himself , in the fatherhood , limited to monarchy , and that to Adam's perfon and heirs , all which our author notably concludes from these words , as may be feen in the fame page ...
... fupreme power was fettled and founded by God himself , in the fatherhood , limited to monarchy , and that to Adam's perfon and heirs , all which our author notably concludes from these words , as may be feen in the fame page ...
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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...