 | 1895 - 464 pages
...as imprescriptible as natural, and the exercise of these rights has no other limits, it was said, " than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights." This theory of natural human rights has often been heard of both before 1789 and since. The theory... | |
 | Iowa - 1899 - 674 pages
...natural right ; that exercise of the natural rights of even- man should have no other restrictions than those which are necessary to secure to every...free exercise of the same rights — and these limits to be determined only by law enacted in conformity with the principles of the constitution of the United... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Political ethics - 1902 - 256 pages
...discussed this principle of " equal liberty " more fully in my book on Natural Rights. / " Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determined only by the law." Here, in the first place, the consideration of injury to others is brought... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Civil rights - 1903 - 332 pages
...par la résistance. authority which is not expresslyderived from it. IV. Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....rights : and these limits are determinable only by the law. V. The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. What is not prohibited by the law,... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1906 - 312 pages
...be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. "4. Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....rights; and these limits are determinable only by the law. " 5. The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. . . . " 6. The law is an expression... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 312 pages
...be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. "4. Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....exercise of the same rights; and these limits are detenninable only by the law. " 5. The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. . . .... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1906 - 546 pages
...than the view embodied in the French Declaration of Rights, namely that "the exercise of the equal rights of every man has no other limits than those...free exercise of the same rights and these limits are determined by law." Constitutions of 1791 and 1793, sees. 4 and 6. 1 Social Statics, ed. 1866, ch.... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1907 - 510 pages
...embodied in the French Declaration of Rights, namely that "the exercise of the equal rights of ever}1 man has no other limits than those which are necessary...free exercise of the same rights and these limits are determined by law." Constitutions of 1791 and 1793, secs. 4 and 6. 1 Social Statics, ed. 1866, ch.... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1908 - 312 pages
...be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. "4. Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....rights; and these limits are determinable only by the law. " 5. The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. . . . " 6. The law is an expression... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 pages
...be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. "IV. Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another....rights; and these limits are determinable only by the law. "V. The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. What is not prohibited by the law,... | |
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Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ;... 
