...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 public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always...

...(a) ," a maxim of too dangerous latitude for a constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion...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...

...Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative."—(Part II. $ 160.) Again: " Prerogative can be nothing but the...

...Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." — (Part II. $ 1GO.) Again : " Prerogative can be nothing but...

...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...

...idea of a representative power being conferred upon places which have almost no • Lit. Middle Ages. inhabitants, and which possess no particular influence...war, and never can acquire legitimate authority. If we have not such force as to successfully combat the usurper, we must patiently wait, till a favourable...

...such, for example, as many of the old boroughs, which were annihilated in England, by the late Eeform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be " A power of...war, and never can acquire legitimate authority. If we have not such force as to successfully combat the usurper, we must patiently wait, till a favourable...

...even the guilty are to be spared where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. This power to act ] CASSELL'S LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. ] vi,....married and fortuned to have children, if the children s is that which is called Prerogative ; for since in some governments the law-making power is not always...

...prerogative;"1 a maxim of too dangerous latitude for a constitutional monarchy. 97. Prerogative he defines to be " a power of acting according to discretion for the public good without the pre scription of the law, and sometimes even against it." This, however, is not by any menus a good...

...it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. This power to act according to discretion for the pnblii good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called Prerogative ; for «mixin some governments the law-making power is not always...