 | Montesquieu - 1977 - 522 σελίδες
...simply the executive power of the state. [3] The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind, arising from the opinion each person has...it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. [4] When the legislative and executive powers are united in... | |
 | Edward J. Erler - 1991 - 144 σελίδες
...powers with a definition of the "political liberty of the citizens." This is, he wrote, "a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety." This tranquility is to be found "only where there is no abuse of power." And it is in the prevention... | |
 | Philip Pettit - 1996 - 402 σελίδες
...thought. The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind, arising from the opinion each has of his safety. In order to have this liberty it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another' (Montesquieu 1977, p. 202). The republican notion of freedom... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1994 - 284 σελίδες
...places strict limits on their freedom. Montesquieu defines political liberty instead as "a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of...it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another."10 Montesquieu takes as the model of such a government modern... | |
 | Brian Galligan - 1995 - 304 σελίδες
...assured. In Montesquieu's noble conception, The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of...it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. (BkXI, §6, 151) Such political liberty was possible only under... | |
 | John Kleinig - 1996 - 246 σελίδες
...this bulwark and its maintenance, he writes: The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of...it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the... | |
 | Jeffrey H. Reiman - 1997 - 308 σελίδες
...that the rule of law is the bulwark of liberty: The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of...it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the... | |
 | Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - 1999 - 452 σελίδες
...harm. In his words: The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind due to the assurance each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is [necessary] that government be so constituted that no man need be afraid of another. For monarchies,... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 σελίδες
...Packet in 1776, cited Montesquieu's definition of political liberty — "that tranquillity or peace of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety" — and doubted that a government without a king could guarantee this kind of security. Paine himself,... | |
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The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. 
