 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community,...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... | |
 | John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 pages
...in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community,...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... | |
 | John Locke - Political Science - 2003 - 378 pages
...in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community,...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... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Philosophy - 2003 - 310 pages
...upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature — that is, acting for the perservation of the community — there can be but one supreme...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... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 452 pages
...commonwealth, to that extent it may perhaps be said to correspond to Hobbes's sovereign. Though, however, 'there can be but one supreme power, which is the...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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation ol the communitv, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative,...the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act lor certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have placed it." And in another place, he says, "there can be but one supreme power, which is the...which all the rest are, and must be, subordinate." The judicious Burlamaqui, in treating of the essential constitution of states, and of the manner in... | |
 | Frederick Vaughan - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...separation of powers in the sense of 'independence and equality' of executive and legislature; for he held: "There can be but one supreme power, which is the...which all the rest are and must be subordinate.'" 10 Neither Hobbes nor Locke would have recognized the prince or the executive of the American constitution.... | |
 | Stéphane Beaulac - Law - 2004 - 215 pages
...in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own Basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the Community,...rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislative power being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supreme... | |
 | Lee Ward - History - 2004 - 478 pages
...of all political power. Locke claims that in any existing government or "Constituted Commonwealth" there can be but "one Supreme Power, which is the...to which all the rest are and must be subordinate" (II: 149). However, Locke qualifies this institutional supremacy with a more fundamental popular supremacy:... | |
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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... 
