 | John Locke - 1801 - 512 pages
...the supreme judge, as Jephthah did. ยง. 242. If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of' the people, in a matter where the law is. silent, or doubtful,...umpire, in such a case, should be the body of the people : tor in cases where the prince hath a trust reposed, in him, and is dispensed from the common ordinary... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1900 - 868 pages
...this I reply, The people shall be judge ... If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful,...proper umpire in such a case should be the body of the people."3 But this is something entirely different from saying that each man shall be judge. " For,... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1900 - 884 pages
...this I reply, The people shall be judge ... If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful, and the thing be of great consequence, I ghould think the proper umpire in such a case should be the body of the people."3 But this is something... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...appeal to the Supreme Judge as Jephtha did. 242. If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful,...the people ; for in cases where the prince hath a trustfeposed in him, and is dispensed from the common ordinary rules of the law ; there, if any men... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - Constitutional history - 1912 - 322 pages
...this I reply, The people shall be judge. .... If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful,...think the proper umpire in such a case should be the people."1 This of course is something entirely different from the right of each man to judge and to... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - Constitutional history - 1912 - 318 pages
...this I reply, The people shall be judge. .... If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful,...think the proper umpire in such a case should be the people."1 This of course is something entirely different from the right of each man to judge and to... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - Constitutional history - 1912 - 316 pages
...this I reply, The people shall be judge. .... If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful,...think the proper umpire in such a case should be the people."1 This of course is something entirely different from the right of each man to judge and to... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...to the Supreme Judge, as Jephtha did. 242. If a Controversie arise betwixt a Prince and some of the People, in a matter where the Law is silent, or doubtful,...Prince hath a Trust reposed in him, and is dispensed 3 from the common ordinary Rules of the Law; there, if any Men find themselves aggrieved, and think... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - History - 1978 - 428 pages
...inferior magistrates and other representatives of the people, but also with the citizens themselves, since 'the proper umpire in such a case should be the body of the people' (pp. 444-5). And when he defends this conclusion in his closing chapters on Tyranny and the Dissolution... | |
 | Ruth W. Grant - Political Science - 2010 - 231 pages
...who rejects such a bargain when he writes: If a Controversie arises betwixt a Prince and some of the People, in a matter where the Law is silent or doubtful,...in such a Case, should be the Body of the People. . . . But if the Prince, or whoever they be in the Administration, decline that way of Determination,... | |
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If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people in a matter where the law is silent or doubtful, and the thing be of great consequence, I should think the proper umpire in such a case should be the body of the people. 
