 | James Bonar - 1909 - 440 páginas
...obedience to a natural impulse ; it is not a moral law written on the heart. So, in civil society, " law in its true notion is not so much the limitation...intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no further than is for the general good of those under that law ; — could they be happier without it,... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 páginas
...Adam's children being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free. For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no further than is for the general Good of those under that law. Could they be happier without it, the... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 796 páginas
...civil liberty. The law in defining rights and compelling their recognition indicates that its desire "is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent being or agent to has proper interest, and prescribes no further than is for the good of those under... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - 1913 - 286 páginas
...call its legal consciousness, the maker and moulder of its laws." And in Civil Government Locke says : "Law in its true notion is not so much the limitation,...free and intelligent agent to his proper interest." If we admit the above conclusions to be true, how are we to insist that there can be but one method... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1916 - 592 páginas
...he is to govern himself by, and make him know how far he is left to the freedom of his own will." " For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...is for the general good of those under that law." Locke refutes the arguments that the judgments of men will not be in the line of reason because the... | |
 | Sterling Power Lamprecht - 1918 - 186 páginas
...freedom. For "law in its true 1 Of Civil Government, §§ 124-126. Cf, also, §§3, 88. 2 Idem, § 87. notion is not so much the limitation, as the direction,! of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest."4 Though men have not in political society the right of private judgment on many matters,... | |
 | Conrad Gill, Charles Wilfred Valentine - 1921 - 338 páginas
...liberty is helped by law and government ; for no better account of the matter has ever been written : " Law in its true notion is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free agent to his own proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - 1928 - 172 páginas
...to it in terms that have not been bettered since his day.217 "For law in its true notion," he said, "is not so much the limitation as the direction of...than is for the general good of those under that law. . . . That ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So... | |
 | John Locke - 1967 - 548 páginas
...Children being not presently as soon as born, under tha Law of Reason were not presently/r«. For Law, 10 in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation as the direffton of a free and intelligent Agent to his proper Interest, and prescribes no farther than is... | |
 | John Dunn - 1969 - 314 páginas
...Treatises, n, §37, 11. 1-2. * Ibid. n, §111, I1. 1-3. 1 Cf. Locke's account of the role of law: '. . .Laa; in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation...than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Laa', as an useless thing would of it self vanish; and that ill... | |
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Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free; for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes... 
