| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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