 | John Marshall - 1805 - 544 Seiten
...many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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 ill designed... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 582 Seiten
...many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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 ill designed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1809 - 486 Seiten
...Pennsylvania ought to have for ever before their eyes: to wit, 1. " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the...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,... | |
 | 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
...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, when all is said, there 13 hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | 1814 - 402 Seiten
...many, and are the three common ideas of government -when men discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 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
...free to the people under it (whatever be 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 is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 392 Seiten
...belongs 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... | |
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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, or confusion. 
