| Benjamin Franklin - 1809 - 486 Seiten
...their eyes: to wit, 1. " Any government is free to the people (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." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power,... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1813 - 562 Seiten
...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...confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there 13 hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders, that in good... | |
| 1814 - 402 Seiten
...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, oligarchy, or confusion." The pith and marrow of the doctrine consists, and is evidently intended to consist, in the last sentence,... | |
| 1814 - 1112 Seiten
...those laws ; and morethan this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly, wnVn all iï sauf, ' there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed byits first founders, that in good hands would not do well enough ; and story tells us, that the best... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 408 Seiten
...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...world so ill designed by its first founders, that in jpod hands would not do well enough ; and story tells us, that the lest in ill ones can do nothing... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 392 Seiten
...to all three:i Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be tho frame, where thr laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. '• I know some say, I.ft us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute... | |
| Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 Seiten
...philosophical sentiments which it contains are not beyond the comprehension even of juvenile readers. " But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one...founders, that in good hands would not do well enough 5 and story tells us, that the best in ill ones can do nothing that is great and good ; witness the... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 470 Seiten
...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...But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frama of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders, that in good hands would not... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 Seiten
...that age, that " 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, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government of a... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 246 Seiten
...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, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view while laying down the frame of a government, is admirable.... | |
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