 Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience,...  Essays on Government - Page 155by Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Great Britain - 1820 - 182 pages
...Reform of Parliament : this is going much farther than the passages above quoted. Mr. Locke says, — " Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away "...arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state " of war ivith the people, tvho are thereupon absolved from any " Jartiier obedience, and are left to the common... | |
 | Ireland - 1827 - 204 pages
...entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making ; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and...of war with the people, WHO ARE THEREUPON ABSOLVED FllOM AN* FARTHER OBEDIENCE, and arC left to the COltlmon refuge which God hath provided for all men... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Ireland - 1827 - 344 pages
...CHAPTER III. THE UNITED IRISHMAN. Whtnever the legislators endeavour to take away, or destroy tlie property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery,...with the people ; who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided against force and violence.... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Ireland - 1828 - 346 pages
...in Pack-lane. CHAPTER III. THE UNITED IRISHMAN. Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, or destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery, under arbitrary y-ower, they put themselves into a state of war with the people ; who are thereupon absolved from any... | |
 | Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and...obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God has provided for all men against force and violence." Who then are the common judges between the legislative... | |
 | John Brown - 1839 - 562 pages
...entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making, whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and...themselves into a state of war with the people, who are therefore absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making, whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people,...put themselves into a state of war with the people." 1 And again, " when the legis1 Locke on Government, 392. lators act contrary to the end for which they... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making. Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and...with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 244 pages
...justify open resistance. The bad effects of tyranny must be clear and numerous. Mr. Locke observes, " Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and...themselves into a state of war with the people, who are therefore absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Greece - 1855 - 474 pages
...justify open resistance. The bad effects of tyranny must be clear and numerous. Mr. Locke observes, " Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and...themselves into a state of war with the people, who are therefore absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided... | |
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