 | John Locke - 1801 - 512 pages
...may be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. §. 160. This power to act according to discretion, for the...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. § IGO. Tliis power to act according to discretion for the public...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative : for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 760 pages
...and governments, viz. that as much as may be all the members of the society are to be preserved. " This power to act according to discretion, for the...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always in being, and is usually... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 756 pages
...and governments, viz. that as much as may be all the members of the society are to be preserved. " This power to act according to discretion, for the...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is tlnt which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 724 pages
...that hath the executive power, to be ordered by him as the public good and advantage shall require. This power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without the prescription of law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." Locke did not stop there,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 422 pages
...dangerous latitude for a constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion for the public good without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." This however is not by any means a good definition in the eyes of a lawyer ; and the word, being merely... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 408 pages
...his Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good,...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." — (Part II. $ 1GO.) Again : " Prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 418 pages
...his Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good,...sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative."—(Part II. $ 160.) Again: " Prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting their... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1842 - 484 pages
...constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion I for the public good without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." This, however, is not by any means a good definition in the eyes of a lawyer ; and the word, being... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 472 pages
...annihilated in England, by the late Eeform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be "A power of acting according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." The reader will find the author's observations on this subject in his eleventh chapter ; but the reasonings... | |
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This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it... 
