Society
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
society · the public · mankind · men, naturally independent
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The collective body of people who, by mutual compact, surrender part of their natural liberty in exchange for security, and in whose name laws and punishments are established.
and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
The necessity of uniting in society being granted, together with the conventions, which the opposite interests of individuals must necessarily require, a scale of crimes may be formed, of which the first degree should consist of those which immediately tend to the dissolution of society, and the last, of the smallest possible injustice done to a private member of that society.
Laws are the conditions under which men, naturally independent, united themselves in society.
The Law of Intellectual Property
The collective public claimed by objectors to hold rights in ideas once those ideas become known.
The primary assumption here is, “that society have rights in ideas once made known to them.
It is said that society have rights in ideas, that have been once made known to them;
There would clearly be just as much reason in saying that society have rights in material commodities—the products of individual labor—because their existence had become known to the public, as there is in saying that they have rights in ideas—the products of individual labor—simply because their existence had become known to the public.
Law in a Free State
The collective body of society, described as standing in potential conflict with the individual.
” When Society and the Individual differ, each must try to overpower the other if possible.