 | Andrew MARSHALL (D.D.), James Lewis - 1830 - 174 Seiten
...not the people for governments ; and that it is only where, according to the axiom of William Penn, " the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," that a government is free. Yet this freedom of legislating for itself, gives a Christian nation no... | |
 | 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 acknowledged... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 Seiten
...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 it, whatever...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... | |
 | James Grahame - 1833 - 556 Seiten
...alteration from the lapse of time or the emergency of circumstances, he advances this position, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." " Governments," he insists, "... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 Seiten
...subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, aud it belongs to all three ; any government is free to the people under it, whatever...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, anil more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | 1834 - 438 Seiten
...man may not hinder the good of a whole country. A government is free to the people under it, when- the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." And in this view, in an age when despotism was on the advance, he determined, according to his own... | |
 | James Grahame - 1836 - 466 Seiten
...alteration from the lapse of time or 1682. the emergency of circumstances, he advances this position, that "any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." "Governments," he insists, "rather... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1836 - 606 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 people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 624 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 people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with... | |
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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,... 
