Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... parent , who is lord - paramount over his children's children to all generations , as being the grandfather of his people . 4. I see not then how the children of Adam , or of any man else , can be free from subjection to their parents ...
... parent , who is lord - paramount over his children's children to all generations , as being the grandfather of his people . 4. I see not then how the children of Adam , or of any man else , can be free from subjection to their parents ...
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... parents , which quite takes away that new and common distinction which refers only power universal and absolute to God , but power respective in regard of the special form of government to the choice of the people . 66 This lordship ...
... parents , which quite takes away that new and common distinction which refers only power universal and absolute to God , but power respective in regard of the special form of government to the choice of the people . 66 This lordship ...
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... parents were heads and princes . Amongst these was Nimrod , who no doubt ( as Sir Walter Raleigh affirms ) was by good right lord or king over his family ; yet against right did he enlarge his empire by seizing violently on the rights ...
... parents were heads and princes . Amongst these was Nimrod , who no doubt ( as Sir Walter Raleigh affirms ) was by good right lord or king over his family ; yet against right did he enlarge his empire by seizing violently on the rights ...
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... parents of their subjects , yet they all either are , or are to be reputed , the next heirs to those first progenitors who were at first the natural parents of the whole people , and in their right succeed to the exercise of supreme ...
... parents of their subjects , yet they all either are , or are to be reputed , the next heirs to those first progenitors who were at first the natural parents of the whole people , and in their right succeed to the exercise of supreme ...
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... parents be immediately due by a natural law , and subjection to princes but by the mediation of a human ordinance , what reason is there that the laws of nature should give place to the laws of men , as we see the power of the father ...
... parents be immediately due by a natural law , and subjection to princes but by the mediation of a human ordinance , what reason is there that the laws of nature should give place to the laws of men , as we see the power of the father ...
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