 | William Belsham - 1791 - 300 pages
...fecurity, and refift-.ince tu oppre/Tion. III. The Nation is efTentially the fource of all fovereignty ; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not exprefsly dc» rived from it. IV. Political liberty confifts in the power of doing whatever does not injure another.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...fecurity, and rejijiance of opprejjton. * III. The Nation is ejfentially the four re of all So* vereignty ; nor can any INDIVIDUAL, or ANY ' BODY OF MEN, be entitled to any authority which ' is not cxprcfsly derived from it.' In thefe principles, there is nothing to throw a Nation into confufion... | |
 | English poetry - 1790 - 734 pages
...fecurity, and rcfiftance, of opprefûon. III. The nation is efTenti.illy the fource of all fovereigntv ; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to auy authority which it not exprefsly derived from it. IV. 1'olitical liberty confifts in the power... | |
 | George Rous - 1791 - 150 pages
...oppreffion. 1 ** III. The nation Is effentially the fource f of all fovereignty ; nor can any indivi** dual, or any body of men, be entitled to " any authority which is not exprcfsly def rived from it. " IV. " ** IV. Political liberty confifts in the power of doing whatever,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1792 - 652 pages
...fecurity, and i cfifUnce of oppreffion. III. The nation is effectually the fource of all fovereigiuy ; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expreisly derived from it. IV. Political liberty confifb in the power of doing whatever doe$ not injure... | |
 | Thomas Hardy, Joseph Gurney - Great Britain - 1794 - 504 pages
...and rcfiftance of opprrjjion. " III. The Nation is ejfent tally the four ce of all Sovereignty ;' " nor can any INDIVIDUAL, or ANY BODY OF MEN, be entitled " to any authority .which is nut exprefsly derived from it." (Page 171, %vo. and Page 78, 12 mo. editions.) " As it is not difficult... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Anglo-French War, 1793-1802 - 1794 - 466 pages
...oppreffion. " III. The nation » effcntially the fource *' of all fovereignty ; nor can any indivi" dual, or any body of men, be entitled to " any authority which is not exprefsly de*' rived from it. " IV. Political liberty confifts in the " power of doing whatever does not injure... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 pages
...SECURITY an,d RESISTANCE OF OPPRESSION. 3d. The nation is, ejfentially, the fource of all fovereignty — nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled...abilities, and to exercife them for the public good, and not for the aggrandizement of particular defcriptions of men or families. Monarchical fovereignty—... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...fovereignty—^-nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled co any authority which is not ex-* prefsly derived from it. In thefe principles there is nothing...confufion by inflaming ambition. They are calculated to eall forth wifdom and abilities, and to exercife them for the public good, and not for the aggrandizement... | |
 | John Adams - World history - 1795 - 480 pages
...fecurity, and refiftancc of oppreffion. 3. The nntion is eflontially the fource of all fovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled...authority, which is not exprefsly derived from it.— They aboiifhrd the monaftic orders, though fome of the houfes remain, for the accommodation of the... | |
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III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. 
