Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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Page 12
... kingdom ; witness Parsons and Buchanan ; the first , under the name of Dolman , in the third chapter of his first book , labours to prove that kings have been lawfully chastised by their commonwealths . The latter , in his book " De ...
... kingdom ; witness Parsons and Buchanan ; the first , under the name of Dolman , in the third chapter of his first book , labours to prove that kings have been lawfully chastised by their commonwealths . The latter , in his book " De ...
Page 13
... kingdom ; all other shows or pretexts of liberty are but several degrees of slavery , and a liberty only to destroy liberty . If such as maintain the natural liberty of mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they ...
... kingdom ; all other shows or pretexts of liberty are but several degrees of slavery , and a liberty only to destroy liberty . If such as maintain the natural liberty of mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they ...
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... kingdom into an aristocracy or demo- cracy . " Thus far Bellarmine , in which passages are com- prised the strength of all that ever I have read or heard produced for the natural liberty of the subject . Before I examine or refute these ...
... kingdom into an aristocracy or demo- cracy . " Thus far Bellarmine , in which passages are com- prised the strength of all that ever I have read or heard produced for the natural liberty of the subject . Before I examine or refute these ...
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... kingdom into a democracy ? Thirdly , he concludes , that if there be a lawful cause , the multitude may change the kingdom . Here I would fain know who shall judge of this lawful cause ? If the multitude ( for I see nobody else can ) ...
... kingdom into a democracy ? Thirdly , he concludes , that if there be a lawful cause , the multitude may change the kingdom . Here I would fain know who shall judge of this lawful cause ? If the multitude ( for I see nobody else can ) ...
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... kingdoms ; but they must consider that at first kings had no such large dominions as they have nowadays . We find in the time of Abraham , which was about 300 years after the Flood , that in a little corner of Asia nine kings at once ...
... kingdoms ; but they must consider that at first kings had no such large dominions as they have nowadays . We find in the time of Abraham , which was about 300 years after the Flood , that in a little corner of Asia nine kings at once ...
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