 By commonwealth I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is commonwealth...  The Monthly Magazine - Page 1801796Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...of making laws is placed, fuch is the form of' the common. 'wealth. §.133. By common-wealth, I muft be underftood all along to mean, not a democracy,...government, but any independent community, which the Latines fignined by the word civitas, to which the word which beft anfwers in our language, is common.'wealth,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...laws is placed: such is the farm of the common.u'eallh. 183. By cominnn-isealth, I must he understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, hut an if independent community, which the Latins signified hy the word eirltaf, to which the word... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...laws is placed, such is the form of the commonwealth. § 133. By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of...government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas ; to which the word which best answers in our language is commonwealth,... | |
 | John Locke - Civil rights - 1824 - 290 pages
...laws is placed, such is the form of the commonwealth. § 133. By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of...government ; but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas ; to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1825 - 854 pages
...writers. Thus Locke, in his Treatise on Civil Government, says, " By commonwealth 1 must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of...government, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas." And this is the sense in which, he says, king James (surely no friend... | |
 | Periodicals - 1828
...By FRANCIS PALGRAVE, Esq., of the Inner Temple. 2 vols. 4to. " By Commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean not a Democracy, or any form of...Government, but any independent Community which the Latins signified by the word Civitan...and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to us» the word Commonwealth... | |
 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - 1829 - 116 pages
...vols. 4to. By FRANCIS PALGRAVE, Esq., of the Inner Temple. " By Commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean not a Democracy, or any form of...Government, but any independent Community which the Latins signified by the word Civitas — and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1832 - 312 pages
...estates to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms." J " By commonwealth I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any end of Charles the First's reign, it has received the narrower meaning of a republic ; (thus, at the... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson - Political science - 1877 - 262 pages
...estates to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms.' * ' By commonwealth I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of...government, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word cimtas ; to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth,"... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1884 - 332 pages
...laws is placed, such is the form of the commonwealth. I 2 133. By " commonwealth" I must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of...government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is " commonwealth,"... | |
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