 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 600 Seiten
...enlarge his own prerogatives, but rather sought to favor popular rights. The people, said he, must rule. "Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." In accordance with this principle, Penn at once called a legislature consisting of an Assembly and... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 484 Seiten
...it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) when the laws rule, and the people are a party to those...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... | |
 | Erastus Long Austin, Odell Hauser - 1929 - 686 Seiten
...and order. As William Penn put it: "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be its frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The Colonists in general had been loyal subjects of the British Crown. They had consented to have their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 Seiten
...he said, Is to *i the people from the abuse of power * * * any government is free to the] under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' And this was ÍM years 1 the Declaration of Independence,... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1902 - 584 Seiten
...in the language of the noble founder of my State, that " that country is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The very essence of anarchy is opposition to all government whatever and the absence of all law. The... | |
 | Philip S. Klein, Ari Arthur Hoogenboom - 2010 - 651 Seiten
...aristocracy, and democracy, but would adopt the idea that "any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws,." No mere scheme or system of government would, of itself, bring good results. "Governments, like clocks,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 Seiten
...necessarily altered; nor is it easy to frame a civil government, that shall serve all places alike. Thirdly. I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy,...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... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 Seiten
...many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse of that 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... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1992 - 322 Seiten
...government. Most interesting is the statement at such an early date of the concept of the rule of law: "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The purpose of the frame is to secure the people from the abuse of power and to keep the proper balance... | |
 | Scott Tucker - 1997 - 284 Seiten
...Quakers. William Penn, designing and writing his "Frame of Government for Pennsylvania" in 1682, wrote, "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." He believed if citizens were only good enough, even a bad frame of government would serve well enough.... | |
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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. 
