| Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 Seiten
...subject. But I chtise 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- frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a part;/ to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But, lastly, when all... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 408 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...laws rule and the people are a. party to these laws ; end more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there is... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 Seiten
...effects of government that he contended for. " Every government," he says in another passage, " is free, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws. And more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." We find him in several passages... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 470 Seiten
...subject. But 1 chuse to solve the controversy with th» small distinction, 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 those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there... | |
| Thomas Francis Gordon - 1829 - 658 Seiten
...governments, with the following comprehensive and unrivalled description of a free constitution. " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...the frame) where the laws rule and the people are parties to those lavas; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." Although the proprietary... | |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1830 - 234 Seiten
...demonstrates that he had a just conception of the essence of political freedom : " Any government," sajrs 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... | |
| 1831 - 586 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 ihe. laics mle, and the people are partle* to those laws,- and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
| 1834 - 614 Seiten
...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... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 Seiten
...of 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...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government,... | |
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