 I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny,...  Proceedings ... - Page 143by New York State Bar Association - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government, after providing... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...aud it belongs to all three ; any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, anil more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1834 - 438 pages
...man may not hinder the good of a whole country. A government is free to the people under it, when- the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." And in this view, in an age when despotism was on the advance, he determined, according to his own... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1836 - 606 pages
...ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 624 pages
...ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1841 - 496 pages
...government, the author observes, that any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion. Governments rather depend upon men, than men... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 1841 - 590 pages
...of just and liberal policy ; the latter, however, far predominating. In it he says, " Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and where the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion."... | |
 | Benjamin Ferris - Delaware - 1846 - 338 pages
...protect his colonists in the enjoyment of civil and religious freedom. " Any government," says Penn, "is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to these laws." " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 442 pages
...the best, in ill hands, will do nothing good. " Any government is free to the people under it when the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. In drawing up his constitution, Penn... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...the preface to the plan of government prepared for Pennsylvania, 1682, declared, that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws. Prand's Hist. of PennsylBania, vol. ii. app. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. . Minot's Hist. of Massachusetts,... | |
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