 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
 | Pennsylvania - 1919 - 418 pages
...Preface to his Frame of Government: "Any Government is free to the People under it (whatever 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1878 - 762 pages
...sacred in its institution and end. 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. Governments depend upon men, not men upon governments. The first principle of Penn's new code recognized... | |
 | Pennsylvania - Courts - 1879 - 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... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...are the following pa>sai:i-= : "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." " There is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders that,... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 244 pages
...Pennsylvania, as follows: "Any government is free to the people under it, no matter what its form, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more or less than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion." The richness and the profundity of... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...Penn's principles was, 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.' He knew no more concise and perfect description... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 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, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 626 pages
...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. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion,... | |
 | John Milton Bonham - Antitrust law - 1888 - 438 pages
...of a free government. He says : " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever its frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws: and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." 2 This definition contains self-contradictions.... | |
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