...dispense justice by known settled rules, and by duly authorized independant judges. Sthly. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation. 6thly. The legislature cannot transfer the power of making...

...protection that a jural system ought always to bestow upon individual rights of property: The Supream Power cannot take from any Man any part of his Property without his own consent. For the preservation of Property being the end of Government, and that for which Men enter...

...dispense justice by known, settled rules, and by duly authorized, independent judges. 5. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation. 6. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws...

...established, and declares that it is a condition of legitimate government that the "supreme power [not] take from any man any part of his property without his own consent" (ST §138). It turns out, a bare page or so later, that what "his own consent" means, in this...

...doth, or can give up to the commonwealth.' All government was thus inherently limited: 'the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent.' Since the legislature was 'only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains...

...peaceful possession of what belongs to him."9 Several paragraphs later, Locke added that "The Supream Power cannot take from any man any part of his Property without his own consent."10 This would appear to rule out taxation altogether and compel governments to rely on voluntary...

...purposes, and by such measures as they would not have known, and own not willingly. Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. For the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter...

...preservation of property, the right to property cannot be abolished by the government: The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. For the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter...

...leaves the power of such levy with the people. He asserts (quoted in Ayer 1946: 199) that 'the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent'. And finally, since legislative power is delegated from the people, it cannot be transferred....

...and by such measures as they would not have known, and own not willingly. 138. Thirdly, The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent. For the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter...