 | John Locke - 1764 - 438 pages
...decrees, but is bound to difpenfe jujiice, and decide the rights of the fubjedt by promulgated Jlanding laws, and known authorized judges: for the law of nature being unwritten, and fo no where to be found but in the minds of men, they who through paffion or intereft mail mifcite,... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1820 - 182 pages
...And he continues, " The legislative, or supreme authority, cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense...promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges." " Whatever form the commonwealth is under, the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received... | |
 | John Locke - 1821 - 536 pages
...§. 136. Secondly, *The legislative, or supreme authority, cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice, and decide the fights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges : for the law of nature... | |
 | Vermont - 1823 - 570 pages
...power to rule by extemporary and arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense law anil justice, and to decide the rights of the subject by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorised judges. And that men give up their natural independence to society, with this trust, that... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 290 pages
...itself a power to rule, by extemporary, arbitrary decrees ; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorised judges. For the law of nature being unwritten, and so no-where to be found, but in the minds... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 pages
...power to rule by extemporary and arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense law and justice, and to decide the rights of the subject by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorised judges; and that men give up their natural independence to the society with this trust,... | |
 | 1835 - 520 pages
...itself a power to rule, by extemporary, arbitrary decrees ; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated, standing laws, and known authorized judges.' Same §. ' To this end it is, that men give up all their natural power to the society, which they,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 418 pages
...itself a power to rule by extemporary, arbitrary decrees; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated, standing laws, and known, authorized judges." Essay on Civil Government, Part II. $136. "Whatever form the commonwealth is under, the ruling power... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 408 pages
...itself a power to rule by extemporary, arbitrary decrees ; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated, standing laws, and known, authorized judges." Essay on Civil Government, Part II. $ 136. "Whatever form the commonwealth is under, the ruling power... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...to itself a power to rule by temporary arbitrary decrees; but is bound to dispense justice, and to decide the rights of the subject, by promulgated standing laws, and known authorized judges. To avoid the inconveniences which disorder men's property in a state of nature, they unite in societies.... | |
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Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges. 
