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John Locke

“The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.”

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
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Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics) Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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