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" This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it... "
Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and ... - Page 355
by Henry Hallam - 1847
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The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...

Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 760 pages
...viz. that as much as may be all the members of the society are to be preserved. " This power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative. For since, in some governments, the law-making power is not always...
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An Essay on the Government of Dependencies

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 408 pages
...Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative." — (Part II. $ 1GO.) Again : " Prerogative can be nothing but...
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An Essay on the Government of Dependencies

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 418 pages
...Essay on Civil Government, calls arbitrary power by the name prerogative. "The power (he says) to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative."—(Part II. $ 160.) Again: " Prerogative can be nothing but the...
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The History of Political Literature, from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

Robert Blakey - 1855 - 474 pages
...old boroughs, which were annihilated in England, by the late Reform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be " A power of acting according to discretion...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." The reader will find the author's observations on this subject in his eleventh chapter ; but the reasonings...
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The history of political literature, Volume 2

Robert Blakey - 1855 - 244 pages
...old boroughs, which were annihilated in England, by the late Reform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be "A power of acting according to discretion for...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." The reader will find the author's observations on this subject in his eleventh chapter ; but the reasonings...
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The History of Political Literature from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

Robert Blakey - 1855 - 482 pages
...old boroughs, which were annihilated in England, by the late Eeform Bill. Locke defines prerogative to be " A power of acting according to discretion...prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it." The reader will find the author's observations on this subject in his eleventh chapter ; but the reasonings...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...even the guilty are to be spared where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. This power to act ] CASSELL'S LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. ] vi,....married and fortuned to have children, if the children s is that which is called Prerogative ; for since in some governments the law-making power is not always...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. This power to act according to discretion for the pnblii good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called Prerogative ; for «mixin some governments the law-making power is not always...
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Two Treatises on Civil Government: Preceded by Sir Robert Filmer

John Locke - 1884 - 328 pages
...the guilty are to be spared where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. 160. This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative; for since in some governments the law-making power is not always...
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Cases on Constitutional Law: With Notes, Part 1

James Bradley Thayer - 1894 - 470 pages
...the guilty are to be spared where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. 160. This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without...prescription of the law and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative ; for since in some governments the law-making power is not always...
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