 | Cadwallader Colden - 1747 - 540 Seiten
...Subjeft. But I chafe to fclve the Controverfy with this fmall DifiinSfion, and it belongs to all three: Any Government is free to the People under it (whatever...where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to thole Laws ; and more than this is 'Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufton. BUy Laftly, when all is faid,... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1755 - 276 Seiten
...SubjecJ. But I chufe to folve tht Controtuerfy witb this fmall DiftincJion, and it belongs to all three : Any Government is free to the People under it (whatever...where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to thofe Laws; and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufion. I know fome fay, Let us have good... | |
 | Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin - 1759 - 476 Seiten
...Pennfyhania ought to have for ever before their Eyes: To wit, i. " Any Government is free to the People " (whatever be the Frame) where the Laws rule and " the People are a Party to thofe Laws: And more " than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufion." 2. " To fupport Power in Reverence... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 582 Seiten
...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...the laws rule and the people are a party to those Jaws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 Seiten
...modes, he observes, that he finds no single model which circumstances have not altered ; and that " any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." One of his fundamental laws is well worth transcribing : " That all persons in this province, who confess... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1813 - 562 Seiten
...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 be the frame, where the laws rule and the people art •a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny', oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 316 Seiten
...government, and that government alone is free, to which we may apply the axiom of William Penn, that " The laws rule, and the people " are a party to those laws." That the legislative authority vested in the Parliament of Great Britain, is most extensive, and supreme,... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 Seiten
...all three: Jin;/ government is free to the people, under it (whatever be the 1 frame) where the laivs 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 one frame of government in the world so... | |
 | 1826 - 438 Seiten
...marked by the chaste and beautiful simplicity of his style, he declares that that country only is free " where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws,"—Lest than this, he says, is tyranny, more than this, is anarchy. To attain this enviable state... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1827 - 484 Seiten
...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 frame, where the laws rule, and the people are parties to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is very certain... | |
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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, oligarchy, and confusion. 
