 Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the...  Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Locke - Page 193by John Locke - 1764 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Howard J. Wiarda - Comparative government - 2005 - 448 pages
...we come to the heart of the matter. John Locke's definition of political power is worth recalling: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death and, consequently, all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | John Durham Peters - Philosophy - 2010 - 318 pages
...afraid of a certain moral hardness is clear in his def1nition of power elsewhere: "Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death."32 A gentle man and a gentleman, Locke calls for the purgatorial trials of selfdiscipline as... | |
 | John Locke - Law - 2006 - 366 pages
...under thefe different Relations, it may help HS to diftinguifti thefe Powers one from another, and mew the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Common-wealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Galley. flow on Earth, {houlcJ make any benefit, or derive any the leaft fhadow of Authority from that,, which... | |
 | Gretchen Ritter - Law - 2006 - 400 pages
...wife, and a lord over his slave" (7). Although one man may hold all these roles, Locke seeks to "shew the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth, a father of a family and a captain of a galley" (7-8). Traditionally, under liberalism, it is not women who in the state of nature are equal and independent... | |
 | Grace Kyungwon Hong - 227 pages
...formation of the state. Locke begins his Second Treatise ofGovernmentby defining the state as such: " Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property" (1980, 8). 3 Thus,... | |
 | Donald S. Lutz - Political Science - 2006 - 251 pages
...in section 3, Locke identifies political power in terms that make it recognizable as supreme power: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 302 pages
...is not for Locke. Locke begins the Second Treatise by defining what, in essence, political power is: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 377 pages
...liberties, and possessions. Such a state thereby rightly acquires "political power."8 Locke explains: Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - Philosophy - 2009 - 242 pages
...imaginary, see C. Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries 2330 (2004). J0 See, eg, J. Locke, Second Treatise 101 ("Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulation and preserving of property"). always be exercised... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh - History - 2003 - 538 pages
...regime, Locke did not write from a spirit of vengeance. Sovereignty is given a new meaning in Locke. Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and, consequently, all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the... | |
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