Quote

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

John Locke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
Writer
Wrington
Somerset
People
Alone
Legislative
Law
Transfer
Making
Transfers
Others
Commonwealth
Hands
Pass
Constituting
Cannot
Laws
Appointing
Form
Whose
Delegated
Power
Shall
Appoint

More quotes by John Locke

Image
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
John Locke
Image
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Image
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
John Locke
Image
Where there is no law there is no freedom.
John Locke
Image
If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
John Locke
Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
John Locke
Image
Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
John Locke
Image
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
John Locke
Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
John Locke
Image
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
Image
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
Image
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
Image
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
John Locke
Image
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
John Locke
Image
Who lies for you will lie against you.
John Locke
Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
Image
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
John Locke
Image
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Image
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
John Locke