 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1796 - 572 pages
..." Though, in a conftituted commonwealth," fays that immortal writer, " ftanding upon its own bafis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the prefervation of the community, there can be but one fupreme power, which is the legiflative, to which... | |
 | John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...that shall not be thrown down." " Though in a constituted commonwealth," says the ever admired Lode, " standing upon its own basis, and acting according...must be subordinate ; yet the legislative being only nfdadary pvwer, to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people, to remove or alter the... | |
 | John Dickinson - Pennsylvania - 1801 - 650 pages
...not be thrown down." " Though in a constituted commonwealth," says the ever admired Lode, " standi&g upon its own basis, and acting according to its own...must be subordinate ; yet the legislative being only s. fiduciary power, to act for certain ends, there remains still in thepeopls, to remove or alter the... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1821 - 536 pages
...disorder and ruin. CHAPTER XIII. Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth . §. 149. Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon...must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a N, fiduciary power to act for certain endsj there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.'-'— Chap. 6, sec. 54. 72 73 "Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its conviction, that is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Australia - 1857 - 428 pages
...constituted commonwealth," observes the philosopher, JohnLocke,in hisEssayon Government, " standing upon if s own basis, and acting according to its own nature,...community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislature, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate ; yet the legislature being only a fiduciary... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Philosophers - 1876 - 598 pages
...points of his charter. " In a commonwealth acting for the preservation of the community," he said, " there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative,...to which all the rest are and must be subordinate." It is quite in the power of the legislature, and often expedient for it, to delegate the executive... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Individualism - 1891 - 192 pages
...seems to me to suggest a more satisfactory theory of Sovereignty than is to be found elsewhere : — "Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon...but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to wh1ch all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Political science - 1891 - 192 pages
...seems to me to suggest a more satisfactory theory of Sovereignty than is to be found elsewhere : — "Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon...own basis, and acting according to its own nature, ' it is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Philosophy - 1893 - 312 pages
...: it is to be found formulated in Locke's second Treatise of Civil Government, ch. xiii. §§ 149, "Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon...according to its own nature — that is, acting for the perservation of the community — there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to... | |
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Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and... 
