...divided the governments into those high monarchical ones in which the sovereign is a paternal despot and the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and those few governments in which, with an hereditary sovereign and an upper chamber of legislation, the...

...efteem, the danger would be infinitely increafed. tie was afraid that the converfe of that femiment, " that the People have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them," would be adopted, and that the People would be led to think that they had every thing to do with laws...

...original elements. He had heard indeed that it had been faid, that the people of this, or of any country, have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and that this ftrangc affcrtion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others are taught...

...original elements. He had heard indeed that it had been faid, that the people of this, or of any country, have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and that this (trange aflertion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others are taught...

...us a faithful difcharge of a great public duty. 1 have heard of fomc very ft range do£lrines ; '• that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them;" and " that the Parliament' of this country is erroncoufly called the Parliament of the People ; for that,...

...let us npt follow their example. We have heard ftrange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard ' that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ;' and it has been faid, ' that the Parliament belongs to the King, and not to the People. I hope we ftiall...

...of the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to -cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them, — with the taxes, but to pay them, — and with the blunders of their rulers, but to suffer from...

...office of reporter, lately established by authority of the legislature. In arbitrary governments, where the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, a work of this kind would be highly useful, tho' hardly to be expected ; for decisions and precedents,...

...of the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them,—with the taxes, but to pay them,—and with the blunders of their rulers, but to surfer from...

...should go lianu in hand ; but now the admirable maxims of the late Bishop Ilorsely, of immortal memory, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, nor with the taxes but topay them, are become much more fashionable. It is not long ago we contended...