 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,...  Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Stran 131avtor: Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1830 - 31 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1827 - 484 strani
...demonstrates that he had a just conception of the essence of political freedom : " Any government," says he, "is free to the people under it, whatever be the...manner which displayed, in a most amiable point of yiew, his zeal for the immunities of his colony. He strenuously urged that the act was consistent with... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 392 strani
...free to the people under it, whatever be tho frame, where thr laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. '• I know some say, I.ft us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them. But let... | |
 | 1831 - 586 strani
...free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where ihe. laics mle, and the people are partle* to those laws,- and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,...trade to the act of privileges to a freeman, passed in 170S, in a man* Clarkann, in his life of Penn, says that it was attributed to one Ralph, and was written... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - 1852 - 638 strani
...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 one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 strani
...great (») 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 may be a tyrant, whether enacted by the will of one man or of a... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - 1860 - 116 strani
...: " 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.) These were evidently general principles, which... | |
 | Hendrick Bradley Wright - 1871 - 414 strani
...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 frame of government in the world so " illy designed by its... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - 1874 - 294 strani
...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 TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THAT... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1879 - 650 strani
...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 one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 strani
...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 frame of government in the world so ill designed by its... | |
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