Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... regal . Thus many an ignorant subject hath been fooled into this faith , that a man may become a martyr for his country by being a traitor to his prince ; whereas the new coined distinction of subjects into royalists and patriots is ...
... regal . Thus many an ignorant subject hath been fooled into this faith , that a man may become a martyr for his country by being a traitor to his prince ; whereas the new coined distinction of subjects into royalists and patriots is ...
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... regal or aristocratical estate , which the multitude is tied to do , even by the same law of nature which originally gave them the power . And why then doth he say , the multitude may change the kingdom into a democracy ? Thirdly , he ...
... regal or aristocratical estate , which the multitude is tied to do , even by the same law of nature which originally gave them the power . And why then doth he say , the multitude may change the kingdom into a democracy ? Thirdly , he ...
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... regal power throughout the king- doms of the world . It is a common opinion that at the confusion of tongues there were seventy - two distinct nations erected , all which were not confused multitudes , without heads or governors , and ...
... regal power throughout the king- doms of the world . It is a common opinion that at the confusion of tongues there were seventy - two distinct nations erected , all which were not confused multitudes , without heads or governors , and ...
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... regal power do hold he got it by tyranny or usurpa- tion , and not by any due election of the people or multitude , or by any faction with them . ( 6 As this patriarchal power continued in Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , even until the ...
... regal power do hold he got it by tyranny or usurpa- tion , and not by any due election of the people or multitude , or by any faction with them . ( 6 As this patriarchal power continued in Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , even until the ...
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... regal favours . All such prime heads and fathers have power to consent in the uniting or conferring of their fatherly right of sovereign authority on whom they please ; and he that is so elected claims not his power as a donative from ...
... regal favours . All such prime heads and fathers have power to consent in the uniting or conferring of their fatherly right of sovereign authority on whom they please ; and he that is so elected claims not his power as a donative from ...
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