 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
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...to secure the people from the abuse of power." For William Penn observes, " that government is free where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." While William Perm was anxious to guard against the abuses of power, the effects of which he had sorrowfully... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Delaware - 1850 - 676 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. " But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Delaware - 1850 - 684 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. " But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 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 partg to those laws. Proud"* Hist, of Pennsglvania, voL ii. App. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. *... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 508 pages
...promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize ; and yet it was the... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 598 pages
...promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize; and yet it was the... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...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, oligarchy or confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there is... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - Pennsylvania - 1852 - 638 pages
...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, oligarchy, and confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 786 pages
...shall serve all places alike." "Any gove/nment 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. "There is hardly one frame of government... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 506 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
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