THE NATURAL LIBERTY of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of Nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative... Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Pagina 40door Massachusetts Historical Society - 1918Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - 1880 - 208 pagina’s
...civil liberty is not much more satisfactory. "Civil libert}," he says, "is a condition wherein man is under no other legislative power but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth." This definition confuses the reader with notions of some imaginary commonwealth, where men and women... | |
| John Locke - 1884 - 328 pagina’s
...or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of Nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it. Freedom, then, is not what Sir Robert... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...entrusts to the community the task of securing and protecting his natural rights, and " the liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it." Such was the Whig doctrine of the seventeenth... | |
| John Locke - 1905 - 198 pagina’s
...or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power...dominion of any will or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact according to. the trust put in it. Freedom then is not what Sir RF tells... | |
| State Historical Society of Iowa - 1907 - 502 pagina’s
...Locke 'a second Treatise on Government, § 131 ; and compare § 22, where he declares: "Liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power...established by consent in the commonwealth, nor under dominion of any will, or restraint of any law but what that legislative shall enact according to the... | |
| James Schouler - 1908 - 328 pagina’s
...the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative power shall enact, according to the trust put in it." When Locke wrote, the modern... | |
| Bernard Bosanquet - 1910 - 392 pagina’s
...to the law which we have prescribed to ourselves is liberty," Locke's sentence, " The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth."2 But Locke is speaking, according to his theory, of the actual or tacit consent of individuals... | |
| Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1911 - 938 pagina’s
...legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power,...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, according to the trust 1 Discourses on Government, ii. 20, 21. * Ibid.... | |
| Frederic William Maitland - 1911 - 522 pagina’s
...strong statement of the conventional theory, it is stronger than Locke's definition. "The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power,...dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what the legislative shall enact according to the trust put in it2." Sydney requires the assent of the people... | |
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