 And so, whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees, by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies...  THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE - Page 414by John Locke - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...decrees; hy indifferent and upright judges, who arc to decide controversies hy those laws; and to emplov the force of the community at home only in the execution of such laws, or ahroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion.... | |
 | Delores P. Aldridge, Carlene Young - Education - 2000 - 614 pages
...require.'"sOnce united, the commonwealth is then under an obligation to adopt and to execute positive laws "directed to no other end but the Peace, Safety, and Public good of the people."17 For no rational man, Locke argues, "can be supposed to change his condition to worsen it."18... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, ... by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to...the peace, safety, and public good of the people. (STG §131) Turning now to Nozick's argument for the state, we find that it is virtually identical... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - History - 2005 - 146 pages
...extemporary decrees; by indifferent [unbiased] and upright judges who are to decide controversies by these laws; and to employ the force of the community at...the peace, safety, and public good of the people. — From John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Thomas I. Cook, editor. New York: Free Press, 1947.... | |
 | Klaus Mainzer - Science - 2003 - 476 pages
...their natural freedom to the extent that the preservation of themselves and their property require: "And all this to be directed to no other end but the peace, safety, and public good of the people" [7.8]. Historically, Locke's ideas of democracy, division of power, property, and tolerance mainly... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees, by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws : and to employ the force of community at home, only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries,... | |
 | John Locke - Law - 2006 - 366 pages
...home,only in the Execution of fuch Laws, or abroad to prevent or redrefs Foreign Injuries, and fecure the Community from Inroads and InvaSion. And all this...directed to no other end, but the Peace, Safety, and publick good of the People. CHAP. X. Of the Farms of a Common-wealth, 132. JB "ir~ 4 HE Majority having,... | |
 | Elizabeth Price Foley - History - 2008 - 303 pages
...be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse). . . . And all this [government] to be directed to no other end but the peace, safety, and public good of the people." JOHN LOCKE, THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT 59 (Dover Publications 2002) (1690). See also JEAN-JACQUES... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - Law - 2007 - 428 pages
...promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to...people. Chapter X. Of the Forms of a Commonwealth 132. THE majority having, as has been shewed, upon men's first uniting into society, the whole power... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who ore 11 Of the Extent of the Legislative Power 134. The great end of men's entering into society being the... | |
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