 For if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people, by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property and subverts the end of government; for what property have I in that...  Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes - Page 461by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774Full view - About this book
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - History - 1997 - 404 pages
...Majority, giving it either by themselves, or their Representatives chosen by them. For if anyone shall claim a Power to lay and levy Taxes on the People, by his own Authority, and without the consent of the People, he thereby invades the Fundamental Law of Property, and subverts the end... | |
 | C. F. Forsyth, Ivan Hare - Law - 1998 - 400 pages
...majority, giving it either by themselves or their representatives chosen by them; for if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Business & Economics - 2002 - 386 pages
...next sentence it is clear that his true target was dictatorial imposition of taxes: "if any one shall claim a Power to lay and levy Taxes on the people, by his own authority, and without such consent of the People, he thereby invades the Fundamental Law of Property, and subverts the end... | |
 | George M. Stephens - Law - 2002 - 224 pages
...majority, giving it either by themselves or their representatives chosen by them; for if anyone shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | Ross Harrison - History - 2003 - 292 pages
...property without his own consent', he says [Sec. 138], adding two sections later that 'if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people, by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property and subverts the end... | |
 | James Brown Scott - International law - 2002 - 1046 pages
...on Civil Government, p. 256. ' jkiJ „ ,„, representatives chosen by them; for if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - Political Science - 2003 - 304 pages
...majority, giving it either by themselves, or their representatives chosen by them. For if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people, by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | John Locke - Political Science - 2003 - 378 pages
...majority, giving it either by themselves, or their representatives chosen by them : for if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | James Macdonald - Business & Economics - 2003 - 590 pages
...clear were the fiscal implications of property rights. In the words of John Locke: If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people, by his own authority, and without [the] consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
 | John Locke, David Wootton - Philosophy - 2003 - 492 pages
...majority, giving it either by themselves or their representatives chosen by them. For if anyone shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end... | |
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