 | Job Roberts Tyson - 1842 - 72 strani
...nature of that representative system, which he designed to introduce. " Any government," he observes, " is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are parties to those lairs; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion."J In conformity with... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1847 - 442 strani
...the best, in ill hands, will do nothing good. " Any government is free to the people under it when the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. In drawing up his constitution, Penn had the advice... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 strani
...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. Prand's Hist. of PennsylBania, vol. ii. app. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. . Minot's Hist. of Massachusetts,... | |
 | 1849 - 854 strani
...to secure the people from the abuse of power." For William Penn observes, " that government is free where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." While William Perm was anxious to guard against the abuses of power, the effects of which he had sorrowfully... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1850 - 684 strani
...subject. But 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1850 - 676 strani
...subject. But 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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 598 strani
...promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize; and yet it was the... | |
 | 1851 - 508 strani
...promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize ; and yet it was the... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 strani
...subject. But 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...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... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - 1852 - 638 strani
...But 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...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... | |
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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,... 
