 Here is a fit place to examine a question which some have moved : Whether it be a sin for a subject to disobey the king if he command anything contrary to his laws ? For satisfaction in this point we must resolve that not only in human laws, but even...  Discourses on Government - Page 120by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Paul Kléber Monod - Political Science - 2001 - 442 pages
...part, Filmer was convinced that not even the laws of God might interfere with the power of patriarchy: "Not only in human laws, but even in divine, a thing...contrary to law, and yet obedience to such a command is necessary."91 The submission of the self to its ruler, therefore, was natural and inevitable rather... | |
 | John Fiske - Middle Atlantic States - 1900 - 342 pages
...abominable doctrine set forth a few years later by Sir Robert Filmer, that " a thing may by the king be commanded contrary to law, and yet obedience to such a command is necessary." But there was no standing up against Stuyvesant in the council, and the petition of Melyn and Kuyter... | |
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