 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
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, when the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." The purpose of the government promulgated... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 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. Proud"? Hist- of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. • Atinot's Hist- of... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 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... | |
 | james bowden - 1854 - 428 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 ie tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.—Governments, like clocks, go from the motion... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...shall serve all places alike." "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. " There is hardly one frame of government in... | |
 | James Bowden - Society of Friends - 1854 - 426 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. — Governments, like clocks, go from the motion... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...that 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... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...and it belongl to all three, any goverument 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 U tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." * Lanjuinais' Constitutions, t. 1, p. 97, "... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - Society of Friends - 1860 - 116 pages
...abuse of power." And when, in solving the controversy respecting government, he says : " Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." — (See Appendix to Proud's History of Pennsylvania.)... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1860 - 748 pages
...preface to the plan of government prepared for Pennsylvania, in 1682. declared that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a par'y to those laws. Proud's Hist. of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2.... | |
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