 | George Park Fisher - 1892 - 382 strani
...con- up t^e sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. waa democratic. "Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1898 - 386 strani
...uP the sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. was democratic. " Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - 1895 - 606 strani
...of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many. . . . But 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. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1898 - 254 strani
...with his people, is best set forth in his own words: "Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Without doubt Penn's liberality toward the people sprang from the belief that if he dealt fairly by... | |
 | Benjamin Bushrod Tyler - 1894 - 552 strani
...counsel of others, he was unquestionably the chief author.2 In the preface he lays down the maxim : " 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." What he meant was shown by his words in one... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1897 - 406 strani
...locality. This was certainly very Saxon ; and then he adds a sentence which has been often quoted : " 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." Governments, he went on, depended on men rather... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1899 - 544 strani
...government in the world so ill designed by its founders, that in good hands would not do well enough. ' ' " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." His famous letter to his wife and children on his departure for Pennsylvania, and his description of... | |
 | John D. D. Clifford - 1899 - 244 strani
...of the form of government, said these words, which I saw in Independence Hall, Philadelphia : — " Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws. More than that is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is a characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - 1900 - 456 strani
...government." As to the form the government shall assume it is a creature of time and circumstance. " 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 after all, the best frame will not manage... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 strani
...election, the functions of the governor and council, and the privileges of the Assembly. He held that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." He intended his people to be... | |
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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,... 
