 ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove...  Two Treatises on Government - Page 229by John Locke - 1821 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1839 - 556 pages
...writers, have held, that " there remains still inherent in the power to al- ,, 1 i . , , - , ter the le- " people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative,...they find the legislative act contrary to the trust re" posed in them : for, when such trust is abused, it is " thereby forfeited, and devolves to those... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 542 pages
...can undo. Locke, and other great theoretical writers have held, that " there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ; for when such trust is abused, it is thereby forfeited, and devolves to those who gave it." But however... | |
 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pages
...executive." Mr. Locke and other theoretical writers have (and do hold) that " There remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them, for when such trust is abused it is thereby forfeited, and devolves to those who gave it." But however... | |
 | Belgium, Belgium statutes - 1849 - 184 pages
...the ease stated by Loeke (on Goverament, p. 2. § 149. 227. ), that " there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative aet eontrary to the trnst reposed in them ; for when sueh trnst is abused, it is thereby forfeited... | |
 | Heinrich Ritter - 1852 - 618 pages
...©ottcôbicnfteô ju bulben. 9îur votó due fal|({;er ©otteêfuvrfjt ober ©ottlofigfeit bem 1) Ib. II, 149. There remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative. Ib. II, 240. The people shall be judge. 2) Ib. II, 211. 3) A lett. cone, toleration p. 234 eq. 4) Ib.... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1858 - 718 pages
...that Mr. Locke (a), and other theoretical writers, have held, that " there remains still inherent " in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...act contrary to " the trust reposed in them : for, when such trust is abused, " it is thereby forfeited, and devolves to those who gave " it." But however... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 pages
...that Mr. Locke, (Z)and other theoretical writers, have held, that '• there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...act contrary to the trust *reposed in them ; for, when such trust is abused, it is thereby forfeited, r *i go ~i and devolves to those who gave it."... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1875 - 860 pages
...owned that Mr. Locke,(Z) and other theoretical writers, have held, that " there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...when they find the legislative act contrary to the *16>:>1 *rus* *rePO8ed in them; for, when such trust is abused, it is thereby for"JJ feited, and devolves... | |
 | 1895 - 580 pages
...the people can rightfully withdraw this power. Hence, though in Locke's view there always "remains in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them," this power is merely latent so long as the established government is faithful to its trust: "the community... | |
 | Hendrik Du Marchie van Voorthuysen - 1876 - 196 pages
...opdat zij tot heil der natie zouden regeren, »all power," zegt Locke, de groote voorstander dier leer, »given with trust for the attaining an end being limited by that end" 2). Volgens deze 1) Du contrat sociat; ou principes du droit politique. Liv. I. Chap. VI. 2) Two treatises... | |
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