Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
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... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
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... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
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... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state of this controversy . Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a prince ...
... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state of this controversy . Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a prince ...
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... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion . of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion . of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
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