 When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to a person, or an assemblage of persons, of a known and certain description (whom we may call governor or governors) such persons altogether (subjects...  Political Science Quarterly - Page 2971895Full view - About this book
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 216 pages
...of a political society is a positive one. society. 'Tis with the latter, therefore, we should begin. When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects')...governors) are said to be in a state of political SOCIETY *. XI. The idea of a state of natural SOCIETY is, as ideaof nntural •we have said, a negative... | |
 | John Austin - 1832 - 512 pages
...on Government, thus have been defines the former. " When a number of persons given by ! writers of (whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in...governors) are said to be in a state of political society." — Considered as a definition of independent political society, this definition is inadequate... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...the idea of a political society is a positive one. 'Tis with the latter, therefore, we should begin. When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...governors) are said to be in a state of political SOCIETY.* XI. The idea of a state of natural SOCIETY is, as we have said, a negative one. When a number... | |
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...therefore, avoids all fictions, all hypotheses as to origin, and looks simply to fact. It is as follows : " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...in the habit of paying obedience to a person or an assembly of persons of a known and certain description (whom we may call governor or governors), such... | |
 | John Austin - 1861 - 468 pages
...from natural society, lebrity. Mr. Bentham, in his Fragment on Government, thus defines the former. " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...(subjects and governors) are said to be in a state (Apolitical society." — Considered as a definition of independent political society, this definition... | |
 | John Austin, Sarah Austin - 1869 - 628 pages
...thus defines the former hare been* ' 'When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects) given by are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience...governors) are said to be in a state of political society.' And in order to exclude from his definition such a society as the single family conceived... | |
 | Gordon Campbell - 1877 - 294 pages
...Political Society, by various great Writers. 1. Bent ham. — He thus defines Political Society : ' When a number of persons, whom we may style SUBJECTS,...governors) are said to be in a state of political society.' He also requires that tho society should bo capable of indefinite duration. Austin's Criticism... | |
 | 1879 - 614 pages
...of the modern English theory of the State is laid in BKNTHASI'S definition of political Society. " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to л person, or an assemblage of persons, of a known and certain description (whom we may call governor... | |
 | John Austin - 1880 - 552 pages
...political from natural society, Beutharu, in his Fragment on Government, thus defines the former : ' When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...or an assemblage of persons, of a known and certain been'given'by description (whom we may call governor or governors), such Tiebrfty* persons altogether... | |
 | William Watrous Crane, Bernard Moses - 1883 - 324 pages
...view which his disciple, John Austin, afterwards elaborated. He defines a political society thus : " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...governors) are said to be in a state of political society " (" Works " I. 263). In the sixth lecture of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, Austin... | |
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