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... Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen - Page 35by Francis Plowden - 1792 - 620 pagesFull view - About this book
| van den Doel - Political Science - 1979 - 198 pages
...rule of the majority. According to Locke a democratic community has 'one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority'. Rousseau considered that unanimity was necessary for decisions on the control social but 'apart from... | |
| Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...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. For that which acts [ie, actuates] any Community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary... | |
| Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton - Citizenship - 1994 - 484 pages
...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. For that which acts any Community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that... | |
| David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act p! acts any community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that... | |
| Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - Philosophy - 1996 - 356 pages
...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. For that which acts any Community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that... | |
| Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham - Religion - 2003 - 320 pages
...England. And the consent of the parliament is taken to be every man's consent.18 Body, with a Power to Act as one Body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority. For that which acts any Community [sic], being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to... | |
| Seyla Benhabib - History - 1996 - 388 pages
...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" (2.96). The assumption behind Locke's claim that a community has "a Power to Act as one Body" is that... | |
| Robert Paul Wolff - Philosophy - 1998 - 124 pages
...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. For that which acts [ie, activates] any community being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being one... | |
| Paul-Gabriel Boucé - English literature - 1998 - 232 pages
...individual, made a community. théy have théreby made the community one body. with a power to act as one body. which is only by the will and determination of the majority .6 In his famous treatise. An Essay on the First Principles ofthe Government, and on the Nature ofthe... | |
| Jeremy Waldron - Political Science - 1999 - 224 pages
...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. For that which acts any Community, being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being necessary to that... | |
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