 | George Hodges - 1901 - 158 strani
...choose," he said, " 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." His purpose, he says, is to establish " the great end of all government, viz., to support power in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 strani
...he said, Is to *i the people from the abuse of power * * * any government is free to the] under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' And this was ÍM years 1 the Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1902 - 584 strani
...in the language of the noble founder of my State, that " that country is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The very essence of anarchy is opposition to all government whatever and the absence of all law. The... | |
 | Philip S. Klein, Ari Arthur Hoogenboom - 2010 - 651 strani
...aristocracy, and democracy, but would adopt the idea that "any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws,." No mere scheme or system of government would, of itself, bring good results. "Governments, like clocks,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 strani
...subject. But I chuse 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... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 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... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1992 - 322 strani
...government. Most interesting is the statement at such an early date of the concept of the rule of law: "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The purpose of the frame is to secure the people from the abuse of power and to keep the proper balance... | |
 | Patrick Joyce - 1994 - 260 strani
...[between monarchy, aristocracy and democracy] with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it, whatever...the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are party to the laws... let men be good and the government cannot be bad ... But if men be bad, let the... | |
 | Scott Tucker - 1997 - 284 strani
...Quakers. William Penn, designing and writing his "Frame of Government for Pennsylvania" in 1682, wrote, "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." He believed if citizens were only good enough, even a bad frame of government would serve well enough.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1999 - 756 strani
...its merit, as we would do with any other political judgment of substantial magnitude. XI. CONCLUSION Any government Is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) when the laws rule, and the people are a party to these laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
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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,... 
