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" The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty ; nor can any individual, or any body of men be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. "
A History of the Revolutions in Europe Since the Downfal of Napoleon ... - Page 376
by A counsellor at law - 1831 - 408 pages
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American Social and Political Thought: A Reader

Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 pages
...is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression....authority which is not expressly derived from it. In these principles, there is nothing to throw a Nation into confusion by inflaming ambition. They...
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Democracy in Modern France

Nick Hewlett - 2005 - 236 pages
...rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty;...authority which is not expressly derived from it. IV Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever docs not injure another. The exercise...
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Human Rights, Human Wrongs: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001

Nicholas J. Owen - 2003 - 374 pages
...of Man and of Citizens by the National Assembly of France, the 'nation is essentially the source of sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of...any authority which is not expressly derived from it.'4 One hundred and fifty years later, for better or for worse, the human rights aspect of postcoloniality...
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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...oppression. III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any INDIVIDUAL, or ANYBODY OF MEN, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. These principles are the basis of true constitutionalism (RM314). That is, Paine explicates, they reflect...
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader

Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty: nor can any individual or any body oj men, 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. The exercise...
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An Introduction to Rights

William A. Edmundson - 2004 - 244 pages
...imprescriptible rights of man; and these are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. III. The nation is essentially the source of all Sovereignty;...authority which is not expressly derived from it. The fourteen further provisions state, inter alia: that political liberty consists of "the power of...
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The good society

Walter Lippmann - 1956 - 452 pages
...Declaration of the Rights of Man, there was a growing disposition to deny all autonomy to any association. "The Nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty}...authority which is not expressly derived from it." 1S But it was soon evident that to deny to any body of men any authority which is not expressly derived...
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The Vagabond

George Walker - 2004 - 396 pages
...rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. II. The Nation is essentially the source of all Sovereignty;...authority which is not expressly derived from it." In these principles, there is nothing to throw a Nation into confusion by inflaming ambition. They...
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The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism

Gerard Delanty, Krishan Kumar - 2006 - 610 pages
...nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty' and that no 'individual or body of men1 could be entitled to 'any authority which is not expressly derived from it'. While human rights are said to be innate, social rights are created by states. These two contrasted...
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Vulnerability and Human Rights

Bryan S. Turner - 2010 - 168 pages
...nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty" and that no "individual or body of men" could be entitled to "any authority which is not expressly derived from it." While human rights are said to be innate and inalienable, social rights are created by states. These...
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