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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... "
The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State ... - Page 187
by Edward Long - 1774
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Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Locke

John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legi/lators, the legijlative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands. §. 142. Thefe are the bounds which the truft, that is put in them by the fociety, and the law of God...
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Union Pamphlets, Volume 1

Ireland - 1798 - 602 pages
..."* which being only to make Laws, Qnd not to make Legif' lators, the Legiflative can have no power to transfer their ' authority of making laws, and place it in other hands. LOCKE on Government, 2, 1 1, 141. ' "'x Governments are diffolved from within, when the Le'giflative...
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THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE

John Locke - 1801 - 512 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in other hands. §. 142. These are the bounds which the trust, that is put in them by the society and the law of God...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1819 - 810 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands." — He had heard it asserted, that great authorities could be cited on the other side ; undoubtedly...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 5

John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, trie legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in other hands. § 142. These are the bounds which the trust that is put in them by the society, and the law of God...
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Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on ...

Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...conveyed; which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands." But, then, though a king with legislative power, cannot, in virtue of such legislative power, alienate...
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The Repealer's Manual; Or, Absenteeism: the Union Re-considered, Volume 1

William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...conveyed ; which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other bands." — Locke on government, 2, 11, 141. The present lord chancellor of Ireland, (Lord Pluuket,...
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The Constitution of Society: As Designed by God

Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...conveyed ; which being only to make laws and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands, (i. 47.) All power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end, whenever that...
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An Essay on the Government of Dependencies

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 408 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in other hands." — Ibid. $ 141. The power of the supreme legislature has not, and has never had, in any country the...
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An Essay on the Government of Dependencies

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Colonies - 1841 - 418 pages
...conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in other hands."—Ibid. $ 141. The power of the supreme legislature has not, and has never had, in any country...
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