 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
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...called cofifirmatio cartarum,(i) whereby the great (ยป) 2 Inat. proem. (<) 26 Edw. 1. 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." It is certainly true that law in its turn... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 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, aml more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 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 party to those laws. Proud's Hist. of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7 ; Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. (a) Minot's Hist. of... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...good per se. "Any Government," said Penn, " 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." (2.) The Constitution was suited to the... | |
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 832 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... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...largely political in its nature and appeals i more to the discretion of the lawmaker than to the I wisdom of the law interpreter, yet it has a peculiar...desiring to abolish all property, destroy all money, subvert-all law and order; and you will remember that Jack Cade so far recognized the intimate connection... | |
 | Hendrick Bradley Wright - Labor - 1871 - 414 pages
...truthfulness and force, 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 and confusion. But when all is said there " is hardly one... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...noble founder of Pennsylvania many centuries later gave utterance, when he said : "That government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and all the rest is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." Conceding that lawlessness is not a novel... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - Pennsylvania - 1874 - 294 pages
...1776 HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. 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. Pcan'i Frame of Hotmtnmt. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Peace - 1876 - 190 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 rather depend upon men, than... | |
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