 | 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...Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains in the People a Supream Pouvr to remove or alter the Legislative when they find the Legislative act... | |
 | Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...acting contrary to the people's interests, and should it do so, it ought to be resisted by them. Thus, The Legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they shall find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Law - 1986 - 400 pages
...of making Laws to any Body else, or place it anywhere but where the People have' (§ 142). 59. Thus 'the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative ...'(§ 149). Subject to this ultimate 'sovereignty'... | |
 | John Locke - History - 1988 - 482 pages
...added in 1689 as a reference to 366 rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislative being only 5 a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the... | |
 | James Henderson Burns, Mark Goldie - History - 1991 - 818 pages
...to in ii.viii. 107, p. 356, and the use of custom to legitimate absolutism at n.vii.94, PP- 347~8. the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...there remains still in the People a Supreme Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Tully - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...Reciprocally, the governors are under an obligation to the people to exercise power accordingly. Hence (2.149), the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...there remains still in the People a Supreme Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...clarity. He insisted that the legislative power is "but a delegated Power from the People" and that "the Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act...certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they find the Legislative act contrary to the... | |
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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... 
