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" ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still 'in the people a supreme power to remove... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England - Page 99
by William Blackstone - 1827
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Memoirs of the Reign of George III to the Session of Parliament ..., Volume 4

William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 566 pages
...subordinate ; yet, the legislative being only a FIDUCIARY POWER, to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. For all power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end — whenever that end...
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The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President ..., Volume 2

John Dickinson - Constitutional law - 1801 - 650 pages
...legislative being only s. fiduciary power, to act for certain ends, there remains still in thepeopls, to remove or alter the legislative, when they find...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. For all power given with Irust for the attaining an end, being limitted by that end, whenever that end...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of ..., Volume 1

James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...dispensation of any government upon earth. Let us hear his own words. ' It must be owned that Mr. Locke and other theoretical writers have held, that " there...remains still inherent in the people, a supreme power to alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ; for...
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History of Great Britain, from the Revolution, 1688, to the ..., Volume 8

William Belsham - 1805 - 600 pages
...subordinate ; yet, the legislative being only a FIDUCIARY POWER, to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. For all power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end — whenever that end...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...legislative power shall become more corrupt than the executive. IT must be owned that Mr. Locke h, and other theoretical writers, have held, that " there...they find the legislative act contrary to the trust re" posed in them : for, when such trust is abused, it is thereby " forfeited, and devolves to those...
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Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are prefixed ..., Volume 2

Robert Robinson - 1807 - 376 pages
...remains at all times inherent in the people, A SUPREME POWER to alter or remove the legislative, for when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them, the trust is abused and forfeited, and devolves to those who gave it. MONBAY. GENERALISSIMO, G- A....
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 14

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1808 - 534 pages
...ends, tliete remain* still in the people a supreme .power to remove or alter ti.e l.-gislative, wlien they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them "f HUTC, then, »8 see two of the three species of sovereignty) one active, the other, except in elections...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 14

Great Britain - 1808 - 542 pages
...power, to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter he legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them "f Here, then, we see two of the three species of sovereignty; one active, the other, except in elections...
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The White Dwarf: A London Weekly Publication, Volumes 1-22

1817 - 362 pages
...owned that Mr. Locke, and other theoretical writers on gov«nment, have held, that there remains btill inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, in case the legislative act contrary to the confidence reposed in them : for when such trust is abused,...
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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke - Civil rights - 1824 - 290 pages
...a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still " in the people a supreme powerljto^ "remove or alter the legislative," when they find...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them : I for all power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end ; whenever that...
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