Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Lockeprinted MDCLXXXVIIII reprinted, the sixth time, by A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers [and 16 others in London], 1764 - Liberty - 416 pages |
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... Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by Creation Chap . IV . Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by Donation Gen. i . 28 . Chap . V. Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by the Subjection of Eve Chap . VI . Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by ...
... Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by Creation Chap . IV . Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by Donation Gen. i . 28 . Chap . V. Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by the Subjection of Eve Chap . VI . Of Adam's Title to Sove- reignty by ...
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... Adam's right heir ; ) as if they had defigned to make war upon all government , and fubvert the very foundations of human fociety , to ferve their prefent turn . § . 4. However we must believe them upon their own bare words , when they ...
... Adam's right heir ; ) as if they had defigned to make war upon all government , and fubvert the very foundations of human fociety , to ferve their prefent turn . § . 4. However we must believe them upon their own bare words , when they ...
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... Adam , he fays , Not only Adam , but the fuc- ceeding patriarchs , had , by right of father- bood , royal authority over their children , p . 12 . This lordship which Adam by command had over the whole world , and by right defcending ...
... Adam , he fays , Not only Adam , but the fuc- ceeding patriarchs , had , by right of father- bood , royal authority over their children , p . 12 . This lordship which Adam by command had over the whole world , and by right defcending ...
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... Adam , and as large as all the acts of his will ; and as in him fo in all others that have fupreme power , Observations , p . 245 . § . 9 . I have been fain to trouble my reader with these several quotations in our author's own words ...
... Adam , and as large as all the acts of his will ; and as in him fo in all others that have fupreme power , Observations , p . 245 . § . 9 . I have been fain to trouble my reader with these several quotations in our author's own words ...
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... Adam's authority , without offering any proof for that authority . Indeed he confidently fays , that Adam had royal au- thority , p . 12 , and 13. Abfolute lordship and dominion of life and death , p . 13. An uni- verfal monarchy , p ...
... Adam's authority , without offering any proof for that authority . Indeed he confidently fays , that Adam had royal au- thority , p . 12 , and 13. Abfolute lordship and dominion of life and death , p . 13. An uni- verfal monarchy , p ...
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Page 27 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 27 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 217 - And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting is thought his who pursues her during the chase. For being a beast that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession, whoever has employed so much labour...
Page 217 - It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c. makes a right to them, then any one may engross as much as he will. To which I answer, Not so. The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too. "God has given us all things richly,
Page 214 - The fruit or venison which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his (ie a part of him) that another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life.
Page 193 - Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, and all this only for the public good.
Page 197 - ... what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint. For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment.
Page 320 - Fourthly, the legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 384 - Every one is at the disposure of his own will when those who had by the delegation of the society the declaring of the public will are excluded from it, and others usurp the place who have no such authority or delegation.
Page 300 - I say that every man that hath any possession or enjoyment of any part of the dominions of any government doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government during such enjoyment as any one under it...