Political Science: Or, The State Theoretically and Practically Considered, Volume 1 |
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... wrong outward actions , is a subject which we shall have to consider hereafter . At present we refer to the subject only to show that there must be a limit to the laws of society within the broader sphere of the laws of a perfect system ...
... wrong outward actions , is a subject which we shall have to consider hereafter . At present we refer to the subject only to show that there must be a limit to the laws of society within the broader sphere of the laws of a perfect system ...
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... wrong for others to interfere in his use of them , or in other words , they are bound to abstain from interference - are bound to leave him * The word right is derived from a root denoting in its physical sense to stretch out , or ...
... wrong for others to interfere in his use of them , or in other words , they are bound to abstain from interference - are bound to leave him * The word right is derived from a root denoting in its physical sense to stretch out , or ...
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... wrong is done to him and endeavors to recover it by force . Or let a younger child steal such a gift given by the parent ; here too the older and stronger child feels that a wrong has been done to him . Thus there is an acknowledgment ...
... wrong is done to him and endeavors to recover it by force . Or let a younger child steal such a gift given by the parent ; here too the older and stronger child feels that a wrong has been done to him . Thus there is an acknowledgment ...
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... wrong - doer . He does not doubt that the relation formed between him and the thing gives to him the free dis- posal of it . But let the parent have given the thing to him . with the injunction that he is not to part with it . In this ...
... wrong - doer . He does not doubt that the relation formed between him and the thing gives to him the free dis- posal of it . But let the parent have given the thing to him . with the injunction that he is not to part with it . In this ...
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... wrong and of injury done to a family or a kindred . It is true that conceptions of rights are faint , and mingled with religious ideas , it may be , in savage tribes ; but it is true , also , that moral and religious ideas are equally ...
... wrong and of injury done to a family or a kindred . It is true that conceptions of rights are faint , and mingled with religious ideas , it may be , in savage tribes ; but it is true , also , that moral and religious ideas are equally ...
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Page 249 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Page 411 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 203 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Page 254 - But with regard to the merely contingent or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself ; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.
Page 338 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 332 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 169 - Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth ; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Page 412 - It follows, lastly, that since the king or magistrate holds his authority of the people, both originally and naturally for their good in the first place, and not his own, then may the people, as oft as they shall judge it for the best, either choose him or reject him, retain him or depose him, though no tyrant, merely by the liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems to them best.
Page 332 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 255 - In the first place, it must by no means be supposed, because damage, or probability of damage, to the interests of others can alone justify the interference of society, that therefore it always does justify such interference. In many cases an individual, in pursuing a legitimate object, necessarily and therefore legitimately causes pain or loss to others, or intercepts a good which they had a reasonable hope of obtaining.