 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
 | James Kent - Law - 1901 - 1112 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 (Aose laws. Proud's Hist, of Pennsylvania, ii. App. p. 7 ; Bacon's Laws, 1638, c. 2. (a) Minot's Hist,... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - Presidents - 1901 - 556 pages
...government he declares 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." The charter (1681) provided that all legislation should be with the consent of the freemen of the province... | |
 | 1901 - 1012 pages
...resistance to the crown, " that any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) v 5 He meant that his colonists should have such freedom as his gift, and at the very beginning of their... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scotch-Irish - 1902 - 624 pages
...found in Penn's preface to his frame of government for Pennsylvania in the words : ' Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.' By the laws of the province promulgated in 1682 every inhabitant owning land or paying ' scot and lot... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - Iroquois Indians - 1902 - 408 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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 424 pages
...hundred years afterwards, "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." He meant that his colonists should have such freedom as his gift, and at the very beginning of their... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - Political Science - 1903 - 392 pages
...are suggested as being most commonly discussed, but the conclusion is drawn that, " any government is free to the people under it ... where the laws rule and the 1 After 1705, Roman Catholics were disqualified from holding office. people are a party to those laws."... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - Bibliography - 1904 - 390 pages
...constitution of Pennsylvania. Government, the Preface declared, was of divine origin, and "any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The Frame provided for a Governor or Deputy Governor, to be appointed by the proprietor, and a Council... | |
 | Augustus C. Buell - Pennsylvania - 1904 - 422 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. . . . But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government so ill-designed by its... | |
 | Charles McLean Andrews - United States - 1904 - 414 pages
...with this small distinction: 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. . . . Let men be good and the government cannot... | |
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