History of the Theory of Sovereignty Since Rousseau

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Columbia University Press, 1900 - 222 sidor
 

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Sida 156 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Sida 21 - ... strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one will : which is as much as to say, to appoint one man, or assembly of men, to bear their person...
Sida 135 - 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 political and independent."1 § 20.
Sida 49 - ... ne s'envisageant eux-mêmes que comme délégués par la Providence pour gouverner trois branches d'une même famille, savoir : l'Autriche, la Prusse et la Russie, confessant ainsi que la nation chrétienne dont eux et leurs peuples font partie n'a réellement d'autre souverain que Celui à qui seul appartient en propriété la puissance...
Sida 28 - The end of government is the good of mankind ; and which is best for mankind, that the people should be always exposed to the boundless will of tyranny, or that the rulers should be sometimes liable to be opposed when they grow exorbitant in the use of their power, and employ it for the destruction, and not the preservation, of the properties of their people?
Sida 163 - The federal and State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers, and designed for different purposes.

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