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... submitted to without hesitation ; for perfpicua non funt probanda § . “ What our predeceffors took great pains to prove , we 68 Third Letter to Mr. Burke , p . 23 . now go- adoption of principles with- commends the out befitation ...
... submitted to without hesitation ; for perfpicua non funt probanda § . “ What our predeceffors took great pains to prove , we 68 Third Letter to Mr. Burke , p . 23 . now go- adoption of principles with- commends the out befitation ...
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... submit to the determination of the majority , and to be con- cluded by it ; or elfe this original compact , whereby he with others incorporates into one fociety , would fignify nothing , and be no com- pact , if he be left free , and ...
... submit to the determination of the majority , and to be con- cluded by it ; or elfe this original compact , whereby he with others incorporates into one fociety , would fignify nothing , and be no com- pact , if he be left free , and ...
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... submit even to the truth of their antagonists . Like other truths , this has frequently met with oppofi- tion and refiftance from the attempts of the ignorant to mifreprefent , and the wicked to abuse it . When I lament the pliancy ...
... submit even to the truth of their antagonists . Like other truths , this has frequently met with oppofi- tion and refiftance from the attempts of the ignorant to mifreprefent , and the wicked to abuse it . When I lament the pliancy ...
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... submit to my readers what this folid and perfpicuous philofopher fays of the general forms of a common - wealth.- " The majority having , as has been fhew- * Locke of Civil Government , c . xviii . + Ibid . c . xvi . L 2 + Ibid . c ...
... submit to my readers what this folid and perfpicuous philofopher fays of the general forms of a common - wealth.- " The majority having , as has been fhew- * Locke of Civil Government , c . xviii . + Ibid . c . xvi . L 2 + Ibid . c ...
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... of fome theocratic rulers of Ifrael . This primary defect of title in those , who refted the right upon this ground , ne- ceffarily ceffarily increased the unwillingness of their opponents to submit to 194 Of the Revolution , and.
... of fome theocratic rulers of Ifrael . This primary defect of title in those , who refted the right upon this ground , ne- ceffarily ceffarily increased the unwillingness of their opponents to submit to 194 Of the Revolution , and.
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Page 35 - For, when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.
Page 18 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 488 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Page 18 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Page 175 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 34 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, -without his own consent.
Page 503 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 456 - M. st. 2, c. 2, as one of the liberties of the people, " that the freedom of speech, and debates, and proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 26 - ... Every history of the creation, and every traditionary account, whether from the lettered or unlettered world, however they may vary in their opinion or belief of certain particulars, all agree in establishing one point, the unity of man; by which I mean that men are all of one degree, and consequently that all men are born equal, and with equal natural rights...
Page 487 - ... tempt a man to conclude that he may not at some time or other be deeply interested in these researches. The infirmities of the best among us, the vices and ungovernable passions of others, the instability of all human affairs, and the numberless...