 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 470 strani
...ideas of government, when men discourse on that subject. But 1 chuse to solve the controversy with th» small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any...those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frama of government in the world so... | |
 | Andrew MARSHALL (D.D.), James Lewis - 1830 - 174 strani
...not the people for governments ; and that it is only where, according to the axiom of William Penn, " the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," that a government is free. Yet this freedom of legislating for itself, gives a Christian nation no... | |
 | 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, and confusion." It is very certain that the liberty enjoyed by his colony was esteemed, at the time, rather of dangerous... | |
 | 1834 - 614 strani
...forty-four articles. One of them was, that " any government is free to the people under it (whichever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." His fundamental law with respect to religion was, that all persons in the province who acknowledged... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 strani
...government, he lays down this proposition, which was far beyond the general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 strani
...meu discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, aud it belongs to all three ; any government is free to...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, anil more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | 1834 - 438 strani
...man may not hinder the good of a whole country. A government is free to the people under it, when- the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." And in this view, in an age when despotism was on the advance, he determined, according to his own sublime... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 strani
...several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many, and are the three common ideas of government...those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view while laying down the frame of a government,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1836 - 606 strani
...Pennsylvania ought to have for ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the...party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 624 strani
...Pennsylvania ought to have for ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the...party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people... | |
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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,... 
