 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | Hilaire Barnett - Law - 1996 - 658 pages
...ultimate power of the people to overthrow a government which violated its trust. As Locke observed: . . . acting for the preservation of the community, there...there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - History - 1997 - 236 pages
...in a Constituted Commonwealth ... there can be but one Supream Power, which is the Legislative,... yet the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to...certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the... | |
 | Duncan Ivison - Philosophy - 1997 - 258 pages
...instance, they retain their right to judge whether or not the sovereign has lived up to their trust: "the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the... | |
 | Karl Tilman Winkler - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...Freeholder's Journal, Nr. 33, Mi. 8. VIII. 1722; John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government, II, Par. 149: "Legislative, being only a Fiduciary Power, to act...there remains still in the People, a Supreme Power, to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the Trust reposed in... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...commonwealth, to that extent it may perhaps be said to correspond to Hobbes's sovereign. Though, however, 'there can be but one supreme power, which is the...there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | Christopher W. Morris - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 262 pages
...consequences for his theory of resistance, as one of his clearest discussions of the idea reveals: The Legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...there remains still in the People a supreme power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | Melissa S. Williams - Philosophy - 2000 - 350 pages
...government as a trust most powerfully informs all the rest. In the Second Treatise, Locke states that the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...there remains still in the People a Supreme Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | Douglass Adair - History - 2000 - 230 pages
...separated." Locke, Second Treatise, ch. XIII: 143-144. 25. Government "being only a fiduciary power to set for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | James Brown Scott - International law - 2002 - 1046 pages
...power, but it should remain, he insisted, subordinate to the will of the people. In his own words, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
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... 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... 
