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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... "
The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the ... - Page 105
by John Dickinson - 1801
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Political Pluralism: A Study in Contemporary Political Theory

Gongquan Xiao - Cultural pluralism - 1927 - 308 pages
...xviii. 1 Pollock, op. cit., p. 99. * These are Locke's words : " Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according...legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinated ; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains...
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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...of the Powers of the Commonwealth. 149. 'T'"1 Hough in a Constituted Commonwealth, standing upon 1 its own Basis, and acting according to its own Nature,...preservation of the Community, there can be but one Supream Pawer, which is the Legislatrve, to which all the § 149 Chapter xitt In the view of the editot,...
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Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer

John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 pages
...XIII OF THE SUBORDINATION OF THE POWERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH 149. THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis and acting according to...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...
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John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignty: Mixed Monarchy and the Right of ...

Julian H. Franklin - Political Science - 1978 - 164 pages
...introduced explicitly. although in a more English terminology: Though in a Constituted Commonwealth, standing upon its own Basis, and acting according...preservation of the community, there can be but one Supream Power, which is the Legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the...
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Evaluation in Environmental Planning: Assessing Environmental, Social ...

Donald M. McAllister - Architecture - 1982 - 324 pages
...to any other hands. . . . Though in a constitutional commonwealth . . . there can be but one supream power, which is the legislative, to which all the...and must be subordinate, yet the legislative, being the judiciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the power of the people a supream...
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The Nation with the Soul of a Church

Sidney Earl Mead - Political Science - 1985 - 176 pages
...resident in the people between several "legislatives."27 He held that "there can be but one Supream Power, which is the Legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate. . . ,"28 This, I suppose, is the common conception of the unitary "state." The Americans created, not...
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Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

Jean Hampton - Philosophy - 1986 - 318 pages
...people when he writes that Though in a Constituted Commonwealth . . . there can be but one Supream Power which is the Legislative, to which all the rest...must be subordinate, yet the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains in the People a Supream Pouvr to remove or...
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The War Power After 200 Years: Congress and the President at a ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Special Subcommittee on War Powers - Executive power - 1989 - 1444 pages
...example — Locke was one of the guiding lights in the thinking of the Founding Fathers-^-observed, "There can be but one supreme power, which is the...to which all the rest are and must be subordinate." Then, James Madison indicated, "In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."...
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The Nature of Politics

Bertrand De Jouvenel, Dennis Hale, Marc Landy - Political Science - 1992 - 318 pages
...here is a problem. Locke's ideas do not fit the present situation. [I]na constituted commonwealth, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative,...to which all the rest are and must be subordinate. . . . But because the laws that are at once and in a short time made, have a constant and lasting force,...
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The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

Steven M. Dworetz - History - 1994 - 268 pages
...his exegetical mutilation of Locke's theory was even more extreme. Here is Galloway's transcription: "There can be but one supreme power, which is the...which all the rest are, and must be, subordinate." This time Galloway punctuated a dependent clause into a complete sentence. And again, a part (which,...
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