 | John Locke - 1801 - 512 pages
...by those whom they have chosen, and authorized to make laws for them. The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no otlaer than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1819 - 810 pages
...by those whom they have chosen, and authorized to make laws for them. The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1811 - 678 pages
...passage or two from Mr. Locke's Treatise of Government. ' The ' power of the legislative, says he, being derived ' from the people by a positive voluntary grant ' and- institution, can be no ut her_than what that 1 positive grant conveyed ; which being only to < make laws and not legislators,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1819 - 816 pages
...by those whom they have chosen, and authorized to make laws for them. The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, con be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Great Britain - 1822 - 450 pages
...supported by authorities, if any authority be requisite, " The power of the legislative," says Mr. Locke, " being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws and not legislators, the legislative can... | |
 | Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...§ XII. f Locke's Works, Vol. II- p. 215. ised to make laws for them. The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary...grant and institution, can be no other, than what that positive grant conveyed; which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...in such terms, nobody else can say other men shall make laws for them. The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed ; which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...legislative—and appointing in whose hands that shall be; and when the people shall have said we will submit and be governed by laws made by such men, and in such...institution, can be no other than what the positive grant conveyed—which teing only to make laws—and not to make legislators—the legislature can have no... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...the interposition of the people. — (Mor. Philosophy.) 296 The power of the legislative, says Locke, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary. grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed ; which being only to make laws and not to make legislators, the legislative... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 408 pages
...erroneous, being founded on his doctrine of a social compact. " The power of the legislative (he says) being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative... | |
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The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power... 
