If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society... Essays on Government - Page 207by Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1832 - 512 pages
...independent political society may be expressed concisely thus. — If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...superior) is a society political and independent. Th« r«i»- To that determinate superior, the other members lionofftovc- lii of the society are subject:... | |
| Education - 1832 - 410 pages
...and independent political society may be expressed concisely thus : if a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...superior) is a society political and independent. To that determinate superior the other members of the society are subject ; or on that determinate... | |
| American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...and independent political society may be expressed concisely thus : If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...superior) is a society political and independent. To that determinate superior the other members of the society are subject, or on that determinate superior... | |
| Law - 1857 - 386 pages
...Determined," as the best definition of "sovereignty:" — "If a determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual...superior) is a society political and independent. To that determinate superior the other members of the society are subject ; or on that determinate... | |
| John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 596 pages
...distinguishing marks of sovereignty above described. " If a determinate human superior," says Mr. Austin,1 " not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...determinate superior is sovereign in that society." What political body, institution, or entity is there, in the United States, not in a habit of obedience... | |
| John Austin, Sarah Austin - Law - 1869 - 628 pages
...independent political society may be expressed concisely thus.—If a determinate* human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a givenJ ; society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society and the society (including... | |
| John Alexander Jameson - History - 1867 - 582 pages
...distinguishing marks of sovereignty above described. " If a determinate human superior," says Mr. Austin, 1 " not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...determinate superior is sovereign in that society." What political body, institution, or entity is there, in the United States, not in a habit of obedience... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1875 - 458 pages
...interdependent and inseparable froqi one another. 'If (he says) a determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual...superior, is a society political and independent.' He then proceeds : ' To that determinate superior the other members of the society are subject; or... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedienee from the bulk of a given society, that determinate...superior) is a society political and independent. To that determinate superior the other members of the society are subject ; or on that determinate... | |
| John Austin - Jurisprudence - 1880 - 552 pages
...independent political society may be expressed concisely thus. — If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive...superior) is a society political and independent. To that determinate superior, the other members of the society are subject : or on that determinate... | |
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