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Polit. Deontology
The idea of import of the word constitutional power to of power employed in a
constitutional sense – of power employed – speaking
of the state of a nation in respect of the constitutional branch of law
depends upon the import of the p word power when the idea attached to the phrase imperative power
employed in the imperative sense.
Necessarily intended in the idea of imperative power
is the idea of obligation: as also that of obedience or
submission.
In d have no po You have no imperative
power over me any farther than I am under
obligation of paying obedience to your will: i.e.
acting or forbearing to act in respect of any such
mode of conduct as you prescribe to me or submitting
to be subjected to the action of any other agent in such
manner as you shall have appointed prescribed.
Take away the idea of obligation, in what instead of the
idea of power which you bear in the other part is the idea of influence.
Influence is either on the will or on the understanding
Between power on the one part and influence on the other
the one line of separation is not determinate, it depends
upon the strength of motives created by the exercise
of the faculty a positive influence on the power or the influence.
So far as the effect is produced, is produced by
the application expectation of the expec punishment it is by power
so far as by the expectation of the matter of reward and
nothing else, it is by nothing more than influence alone that the effect is produced.
But these run into one another
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