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absolute absolute monarchy Althusius ancient anti-monarchic aristocracy Aristotle authority basis Bodin Bossuet Calvin Calvinistic Catholic century chap character chief Christian church citizens civil common commonwealth conception consent constitution contract creed distinction divine right doctrine dogma duty ecclesiastical embodied England English especially ethics existence fact Filmer form of government function Grotius Henry VIII Hobbes Hobbes's Huguenots human Ibid idea individual influence institutions iure ius gentium Johannes Althusius jurists justice king law of nations law of nature legislation Leviathan liberty Locke logical Luther Machiavelli magistrates Mariana Mediæval Melanchthon ment merely method monarch monarchomachs Montesquieu moral natural law natural rights obedience organization Parliament political philosophy political theory popular sovereignty practical prince principle Protestant Pufendorf reason Reformers relation religious Republica Roman royal ruler secular social society sovereign Spinoza spirit Suarez supreme power tion Treatises tyrant Vindicia contra Tyrannos whole
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Page 345 - labour' of his body and the 'work' of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
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 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 161 - I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a license in making war of which even barbarous nations would have been ashamed, recourse being had to arms for slight...
Page 345 - Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
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 279 - This is the generation of that great "leviathan," or, rather, to speak more reverently, of that "mortal god," to which we owe, under the "immortal God,
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.
Page 378 - By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.