Two Treatises of GovernmentWhitmore and Fenn and C. Brown, 1821 - 401 Seiten |
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... ruler of mankind for then the sentence under consi- deration must run thus : By the law of nature , as soon as Adam was created he was governor of mankind , for by right of nature it was due to Adam to be governor of his posterity ...
... ruler of mankind for then the sentence under consi- deration must run thus : By the law of nature , as soon as Adam was created he was governor of mankind , for by right of nature it was due to Adam to be governor of his posterity ...
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... ruler of all the men in the world ; and so Adam , by this grant , must be constituted such a ruler . If our author means otherwise , he might with much clearness have said , that Adam was hereby proprietor of the whole world . But he ...
... ruler of all the men in the world ; and so Adam , by this grant , must be constituted such a ruler . If our author means otherwise , he might with much clearness have said , that Adam was hereby proprietor of the whole world . But he ...
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... ruler , or monarch , by this charter . 2. That by this grant God gave him not private dominion over the inferior creatures , but right in common with all mankind ; so neither was he monarch , upon the account of the property here given ...
... ruler , or monarch , by this charter . 2. That by this grant God gave him not private dominion over the inferior creatures , but right in common with all mankind ; so neither was he monarch , upon the account of the property here given ...
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... ruler over his children with an unlimited supremacy ; I ask then , upon Adam's death what becomes of both his natural and private dominion ? and I doubt not it will be answered , that they descended to his next heir , as our author ...
... ruler over his children with an unlimited supremacy ; I ask then , upon Adam's death what becomes of both his natural and private dominion ? and I doubt not it will be answered , that they descended to his next heir , as our author ...
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... rulers now on earth are possessed of this power of Adam , by a right way of conveyance derived to them . § . 83. If the first of these fail , the power of Adam , were it never so great , never so certain , will signify nothing to the ...
... rulers now on earth are possessed of this power of Adam , by a right way of conveyance derived to them . § . 83. If the first of these fail , the power of Adam , were it never so great , never so certain , will signify nothing to the ...
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Abraham absolute monarchical absolute power Adam's heir amongst arbitrary power atheism begetting birth-right body bondage brethren Canaan children of men common commonwealth consent creatures divine institution earth Edom eldest Esau exercise fatherly authority force gave give God's governors grant hands hath heirs to Adam inheritance Isaac Israelites Jacob Jephtha judge kings labour land lative law of nature legislative liberty lineal succession living lord man's mankind ment monarchical absolute monarchical power mother natural right Noah obedience parents paternal authority paternal power patriarchal jurisdiction person plain political society positive laws possession posterity preservation pretence primogeniture princes private dominion prove punish reason regal authority regal power right descending right of fatherhood right of lineal rule rulers says our author scripture shew Sir Robert slaves sons sovereignty standing laws supposed supreme power tells thereby thing thou unto words
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Seite 149 - To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Seite 169 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Seite 170 - For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
Seite 229 - ... 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 or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.
Seite 192 - ... by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it. This any number of men may do, because it injures not the freedom of the rest; they are left as they were in the liberty of the state of nature.
Seite 41 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Seite 16 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Seite 20 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Seite 98 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Seite 130 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations : and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.