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absolute absolute monarchy Althusius ancient anti-monarchic aristocracy Aristotle authority basis Bodin body Calvin Calvinistic Catholic century chap character chief Christian church citizens civil command common commonwealth conception condition consent constitution contract creed distinction divine right doctrine dogma duty ecclesiastical embodied England English ethics fact Filmer function Grotius Henry VIII Hobbes Hobbes's Huguenots human Ibid idea individual influence institutions iure ius gentium ius naturale jurists justice king latter law of nations law of nature Leviathan liberty Locke logical Luther Machiavelli magistrates medieval Melanchthon ment merely method monarch monarchomachs Montesquieu moral natural law natural rights obedience organization Parliament peace political philosophy political theory popular sovereignty practical prince principles Protestant Pufendorf Puritan reason Reformers relation religious Republica Roman royal rule rulers secular social society sovereign Spinoza spirit Suarez supreme power tendency tion treatise tyrannicide tyrant Vindicia contra Tyrannos whole
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Page 278 - I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.
Page 271 - ... that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Page 278 - A commonwealth is said to be instituted, when a multitude of men do agree, and covenant, every one, with every one, that to whatsoever man, or assembly of men, shall be given by the major part, the right to present the person of them all, that is to say, to be their representative; every one, as well he that voted for it...
Page 217 - that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do : good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His word ; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that ; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Page 361 - ... be forfeited, and the power devolve into the hands of those that gave it, who may place it anew where they shall think best for their safety and security. And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
Page 355 - This therefore contains the power of war and peace, leagues and alliances, and all the transactions with all persons and communities without the commonwealth, and may be called federative if any one pleases.
Page 211 - And to be commanded we do consent, when that society whereof we are part hath at any time before consented, without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement. Wherefore as any man's deed past is good as long as himself continueth ; so the act of a -public society of men done five hundred years sithence standeth as theirs who presently are of the same societies, because corporations are immortal ; we were then alive in our predecessors* and they in their successors do live still.
Page 211 - ... strifes and troubles would be endless, except they gave their common consent all to be ordered by some whom they should agree upon: without which consent there were no reason that one man should take upon him to be lord or judge over another...
Page 350 - ... majority. For that which acts any community being only the consent of the individuals of it, and it being one body must move one way, it is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it...
Page 217 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.