 ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove...  Two Treatises on Government - Page 229by John Locke - 1821 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Morley - 1921 - 296 pages
...carry them, when he said that " the legislature being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative." 1 It may be questioned how many of the peers of that day would have assented to the proposition that... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Constitutional law - 1922 - 328 pages
...on condition, that condition is enforceable at need, whatever be the legal forms of government : " there remains still in the People a supreme power...Legislative act contrary to the Trust reposed in them." In this sense the Community is supreme, " but not as considered under any form of government, because... | |
 | Randolph Greenfield Adams - Great Britain - 1922 - 234 pages
...Wilson observed, "Mr. Locke and other theoretical writers have held that there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them; for when such trust is abused it is thereby forfeited, and devolves upon those who... | |
 | John Morley - 1922 - 370 pages
...carry them, when he said that " the legislature being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative."1 It may 1 Of Civil Government, ch. xiii. See also ch. xi. "This legislative is not only... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, French - 1923 - 360 pages
...carry them, when he said that " the legislature being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative." 1 It may be questioned how many of the peers of that day would have assented to the proposition that... | |
 | Paul Ghio - Economics - 1923 - 212 pages
...and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a flduciary poWer to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or aller the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. For... | |
 | Gongquan Xiao - Cultural pluralism - 1927 - 292 pages
...and must be subordinated ; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ... In some commonwealths, where the legislative is not always in being, and the executive is vested... | |
 | William Temple - Christianity and politics - 1928 - 220 pages
...or " legislative power." But " the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislature." Thus Locke secures three results : (1) to overthrow the existing government is not to... | |
 | James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...Legislative being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the People a Supream Power to remove or alter the Legislative, when they...Legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them' (2.149). In such a case, 'the Power devolve[s] into the hands of those that gave it' (2.149), and 'the... | |
 | Donald M. McAllister - Architecture - 1982 - 324 pages
...the judiciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the power of the people a supream power to remove or alter the legislative, when they...the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.5 Rousseau's interpretation of the social contract is quite different from Locke's, but the net... | |
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