 | Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...decisive. " The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. For it being a delegated power from the people, they, who have...form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting a legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be; and when the people have said, we will... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...them." — ibid. 8, 5, 9. " The legislative cannot transfer the power of making Jaics to any oiher hands; for, it being but a delegated power from the...of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be ; and when the people have said, we will submit... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...passage :— . The Legislature cannot transfer the power of making laws into other hands, for it heing but a delegated power from the people, they who have...others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth—which is by constituting the legislative—and appointing in whose hands that shall... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...of the public will, are excluded from it ; and others usurp the place, who have no such authority. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, we will submit... | |
 | Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 340 pages
...at least, absolves the unenfranchised from obedience to magistrates whom they have never chosen. " The people alone can appoint the form of the Commonwealth,...constituting the Legislature, and appointing in whose hands it shall be. And when the people have said we will submit to rules, and be governed by laws, made by... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Rationalism - 1865 - 484 pages
...end of government.' (Ibid., ch. xi.) 4 ' The legislature cannot transfer the power of making laws, for, it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.' (Ibid.) This doctrine was very justly regarded by Grattan and Plunket as decisive against the constitutional... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Philosophers - 1876 - 598 pages
...government." Finally, " the legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative and i < Two Treatises of Government ' (1690), b. ii., §§ 100, 112, 118, 122. *X 68. J... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ireland - 1880 - 802 pages
...distinctly declares that " a legislature cannot transfer the power of making laws into other hands, for being but a delegated power from the people they who have it cannot pass it over to others." Plunket, a great lawyer not less than a great orator, warned the Irish Parliament that they had no... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Europe - 1882 - 404 pages
...end of government.' (Ibid., ch. xi.) * ' The legislature eannot transfer the power of making laws, for, it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it eannot pass it over to others.' (Ibid.) This doctrine was very justly regarded by Grattan and I'lunket... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1884 - 332 pages
...pleases to himself ? 141. Fourthly. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from...of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, " We will... | |
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The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. 
