Two Treatises of Government - Couverture souple

Locke, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460870440 ISBN 13 : 9780460870443

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1991

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Book by Locke John

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punish an alien, for any crime he commits in their country. It is certain their laws, by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will of the legislative, reach not a stranger: they speak not to him, nor, if they did, is he bound to hearken to them. The legislative authority, by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth, hath no power over him. Those who have the supreme power of making laws in England, France or Holland, are to an Indian, but like the rest of the world, men without authority: and therefore, if by the law of nature every man hath not a power to punish offences against it, as he soberly judges the case to require, I see not how the magistrates of any community can punish an alien of another country; since, in reference to him, they can have no more power than what every man naturally may have over another. Sect, 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and

Biographie de l'auteur

John Locke (1632 - 1704)

John Locke FRS (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460870440
• ISBN 13: 9780460870443
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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