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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. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... "
The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State ... - Page 187
by Edward Long - 1774
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Locke: Political Writings

John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. 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...
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Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the False Principles and ...

John Locke - Law - 2006 - 366 pages
...over to others. The People alone can afffsoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Conftituting the Legiflative^ and appointing in whofe hands that...be. And when the People have faid, We will fubmit and be governed by Laws made by fuch Men, and in fuch Forms, noBodyelfe can fay other Men (hall make...
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Justice: A Reader

Michael J. Sandel - Law - 2007 - 428 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. 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...
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The b p20 @20 @ / legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, we will submit...
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