 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1909 - 718 Seiten
...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 be the frame) where the laurs rub., and the people are a party to thane laics, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1922 - 1044 Seiten
...law it affords to the individual." The same sentiment has been well expressed by William Penn: — "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, obligarchy, and confusion." It is certainly true that law... | |
 | Francis Joseph Dowd - 1923 - 422 Seiten
...and all his fortune in this "holy experiment" he was to make in the New World. It was Penn's belief "that any government is free to the people under it...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." From the time when Penn received his grant from Charles II in 1681, immigrants began flocking... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - 1921 - 1018 Seiten
...ideas of good government were embodied in a published "Frame of Government." "Any government," he said, "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, or confusion." To an age keenly alive to the... | |
 | Mary Agnes Best - 1925 - 400 Seiten
...Crown stood firm. Penn was indifferent to the form of his government. " Any government," he said, " 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 or confusion." Monarchies, aristocracies, republics,... | |
 | Breckinridge Long - 1926 - 280 Seiten
...commonwealth which it supported. How could it be stamped as anything but democratic when it related "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 !" loe ITS?!] This Frame of Government,... | |
 | Clyde Lyndon King, James Lynn Barnard - 1926 - 968 Seiten
...subject. But I chose to solve the controversy with this 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. WILLIAM PENN Proprietor of Pennsylvania,... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 614 Seiten
...than Penn expressed in a single sentence. "Any government is free to the people under it, whatever may be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion." Again he says, "Governments, like... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 664 Seiten
...against the good of the things they know." The form, Penn concluded, did not matter much after all. "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) when the laws rule and the people are party to these laws." Good men were to be preferred even above... | |
 | 1927 - 420 Seiten
...„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...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. 59) HL Osgood. The american colonies... | |
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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,... 
