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" Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security? "
Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 629
1812
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The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General ...

John W. Yolton - 1977 - 364 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison...always be freely chosen, and so chosen, freely act, and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should, upon examination and mature...
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Political Obligation in Its Historical Context: Essays in Political Theory

John Dunn - 2002 - 370 pages
...11. 40-6 (p. 431): 'For the People having reserved to themselves the Choice of their Representation, as the Fence to their Properties, could do it for...always be freely chosen and so chosen, freely act and advise, as the necessity of the Commonwealth, and the publick Good should, upon examination, and...
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Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution

Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1989 - 210 pages
...made, and Rules set as Guards and Fences to the Properties of all the Members of the Society");* 222 ("For the People having reserved to themselves the...Representatives, as the Fence to their Properties");* 226 ("the best fence against Rebellion"). Nathan Tarcov (Locke's Second Treatise and 'The Best Fence...
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The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

Steven M. Dworetz - 1994 - 268 pages
...Consent, however, can be given through representatives freely chosen by the people. The people have "reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives, as the fence to their properties."78 Representation is therefore consistent with civil society, whose chief end is the preservation...
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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

David Wootton - 1996 - 964 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new model the ways of election, what is it a double trust put in him, both to have a part in...when he goes about to set up his own arbitrary will, and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth, and the public good should, upon examination and...
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The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in ...

Keith D. Ewing, C. A. Gearty - 2001 - 476 pages
...'the people having reserved to themselves the choice of their represematives. a, the Jence to theu properties, could do it for no other end but that...always be freely chosen, and so chosen freely act and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature...
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Secession, State, and Liberty

David Gordon - 362 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?23 Locke nowhere mentions secession as such. But his discussion opens the door to the issue...
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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

John Locke - 2003 - 378 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison...always be freely chosen, and so chosen, freely act, and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should, upon examination and mature...
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Locke: Political Writings

John Locke, David Wootton - 2003 - 492 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison...always be freely chosen, and, so chosen, freely act and advise as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should, upon examination and mature...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VII: Era of Revolution

Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...to enact. Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison...always be freely chosen, and so chosen, freely act, and advise, as the necessity of the commonwealth, and the public should, upon examination, and mature...
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