 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
 | John Austin, William Jethro Brown - 1906 - 412 pages
...political from natural society, Mr. Bentham, in his Fragment on Government, thus defines the former: 'When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...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... | |
 | Morris Hillquit - 1909 - 382 pages
...recognized and conformed to by the people as supreme." — STANDARD DICTIONARY. "When a number of persons are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience...assemblage of persons of a known and certain description, such persons altogether are said to be in a state of political society." — J. BENTHAM in "A Fragment... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1914 - 174 pages
...foundation of the modern English theory of the State is laid in Bentham's definition of political society. " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...governors) are said to be in a state of political society." l It is worth noting, in the light of Sir H. Maine's later criticism, that Bentham explicitly... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 618 pages
...Bentham. Edited by FC Montague. Oxford, 1891. By permission of the Delegates of the Clarendon Press. supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to...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... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...the Clarendon Press. A few of Bentham's foot-notes are reproduced. 1 Ch. I, pars. x-xvii, xix-xxvii. supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to...persons, of a known and certain description (whom **•"•-•* A"-"< we may call governor or governors) such persons altogether (sub- '*^** ' "*" jects... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1923 - 654 pages
...society is a positive one. 'Tis with the latter, therefore, we should begin. When a number of person (whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in...governors) are said to be in a state of political society. The idea of a natural society, is, as we have said, a negative one. When a number of persons... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - 1923 - 522 pages
...worked out by the great English law reformer, Jeremy Bentham.1 "When a number of persons," he wrote, "(whom we may style subjects) are supposed to be in...obedience to a person, or an assemblage of persons, of a certain and known description (whom we may call governor or governors), such persons altogether (subjects... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - 1923 - 536 pages
...It furnished the foundation for a thoroughly realistic political theory. "When a number of persons are supposed to be in the habit of paying obedience to a person, or assemblage of persons, of a certain and known description, such persons altogether are said to be in... | |
 | Frank Paddock - 1925 - 430 pages
...and all-sufficient reason for every point or practice 3 Fragment on Government. l63. 4 Fragment. l37. "When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...governors) are said to be in a state of political society." 5 Ibid.. 2l5. whatsoever." Government, then, exists because of its utility; because of the... | |
 | James Seth - 1926 - 284 pages
...particularly, that of the State with the other societies. §18 DEFINITIONS OF THE STATE Beniham : " When a number of persons (whom we may style subjects)...governors) are said to be in a state of political society." Seeley : " The community held together by government." Sidgwick : Politics deal with " governed... | |
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