 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1890 - 788 pages
...belonged to the opposite faith.1 It is the doctrine expressed by Locke in the words : " There remains in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative." Austin himself accepts the statement " that every government continues through the people's consent"... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1891 - 192 pages
...supreme power, which is the legislative, to which r'l I'1.*: rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ; for all power given with trust for the attaining an end being limited by that end, whenever that... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1891 - 192 pages
...one supreme power, which is the legislative, to wh1ch all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...power to remove or alter the legislative when they f1nd the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ; for all power given with (rust for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 400 pages
...remedy. So Locke, who expresses the popular Whig views, is of opinion that 'there remains still inherent in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them ; for, when such trust is abused, it is thereby forfeited, and devolves to those who gave it." On Government,... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 444 pages
...to any other hands. The executive power is dependent on the legislative power, and beyond them both 'there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative.' Locke then proceeds to describe the position in which, upon this theory, the different members of a... | |
 | Gottfried Koch - 1892 - 454 pages
...conclusion (that there remains a supreme power in the people to remove or alter the legislative if they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them), may be in theory, we cannot *dopt it nor argue from it. *) s. Teil I. 83. 84. 4) p. 245: those inherent... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1893 - 312 pages
...belonged to the opposite faith.1 It is the doctrine expressed by Locke in the words : " There remains in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative." Austin himself accepts the statement " that every government continues through the people's consent"... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - 1894 - 470 pages
...legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a ftduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still...legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. . . . And thus the community may be said in this respect to be always the supreme power, but not as... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1895 - 286 pages
...to anybody else, or place it anywhere but where the people have ' (Civ. Gov. XI. § 142). 59. Thus ' the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act...the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislature.' Subject to this ultimate ' sovereignty ' (a term which Locke does not use) of the people,... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1900 - 868 pages
...of the community, there ipreme power, which is the legislative . . . yet the legislative being only to act for certain ends, there remains still in the...power to remove or alter the legislative, when they r'nd the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them." Locke, Two Treatises on Government,... | |
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... 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... 
