First, they are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the countryman at plough. The Central Law Journal - Page 1501878Full view - About this book
| John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...have set to the legislative power of every com-r raonwealth, in all forms of government. First, They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not...varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favourite at court, and the countryman at plough. Secondly, These laws also... | |
| 1835 - 520 pages
...and at pleasure, so it ought to be exercised by established and promulgated laws' &c. § 142. ' They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not...varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court, and the countryman at plough.' From these extracts, it appears,... | |
| 1836 - 522 pages
...suspending, ' but particular and exclusive.' The last citation from Locke is in these words. : They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases.' As the writer has chosen this passage to illustrate his idea of ' standing laws,' it seems difficult... | |
| Thomas Brothers - 1842 - 158 pages
...be founded on equity ; and justly and impartially executed, " Not to be varied," as Locke observes, "in particular cases, but to have one rule for the rich and poor ; for the favourite at court and the countryman at plough." And then he justly remarks tEat government "is a... | |
| John Stetson Barry - 1856 - 538 pages
...Deity alone. An independent judiciary is likewise essential. There should be one rule of justice for rich and poor — for the favorite at court and the countryman at the plough. And the supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property, without... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 pages
...nature, have set to the legislative power of any commonwealth, in all forms of government : ".First. They are to govern by promulgated, established laws, not to be varied in established cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favored at court and the countrymen... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1865 - 602 pages
...all before the law; so that the report says, citing Locke, "There should be one rule of justice for rich and poor; for the favorite at court and the countryman at the plough." It developed the idea at length, that consent is the true basis of law; it affirmed that... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...set to the legislative power of every commonwealth, in all forms of government : — " First. They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not...varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the countryman at plough. " Secondly. These laws also... | |
| 1887 - 542 pages
...arbitrary mandate, unrecognized in free government. Mr. Locke has said of those who make the laws : ' They are to govern by promulgated, established laws, not...varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the countryman at plough ; ' and this may justly be said... | |
| 1886 - 546 pages
...Lim., sp 391. The aim of the law should be equality of rights and privileges, affording " one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the countryman at plough." It was therefore held in Lewis u. Webb, 3 Greeuleaf, 326, that the Legislature could not authorize... | |
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