 | Sydney George Fisher - 1899 - 544 Seiten
...government in the world so ill designed by its founders, that in good hands would not do well enough. ' ' " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." His famous letter to his wife and children on his departure for Pennsylvania, and his... | |
 | John D. D. Clifford - 1899 - 244 Seiten
...of the form of government, said these words, which I saw in Independence Hall, Philadelphia : — " Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws. More than that is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is a characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 Seiten
...election, the functions of the governor and council, and the privileges of the Assembly. He held 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, and confusion." He intended his people to be... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - 1900 - 456 Seiten
...government." As to the form the government shall assume it is a creature of time and circumstance. " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." But after all, the best frame... | |
 | George Hodges - 1901 - 158 Seiten
...aristocracy, and democracy, " I choose," he said, " to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." His purpose, he says, is to establish " the great end of all government, viz., to support... | |
 | 1901 - 1012 Seiten
...who a hundred years afterwards upheld these same colonies in their resistance to the crown, " that any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." He meant that his colonists should have such freedom as his gift, and at the very beginning... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1901 - 556 Seiten
...representative government prevailed from the beginning. In a prelude to his frame of government he declares that "any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The charter (1681) provided that all legislation should be with the consent of the freemen... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 412 Seiten
...when Men discourse on that Subject. But I chuse to solve the Controversy with this small Distinction, and it belongs to all three : Any Government is free...where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to those Laws ; and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confusion. BUT Lastly, when all is said,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 442 Seiten
...It was his belief, as it was the belief of the great Edmund Burke a hundred years afterwards, " that any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." He meant that his colonists should have such freedom as his gift, and at the very beginning... | |
 | William Dudley Foulke - 1903 - 220 Seiten
...when men discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three. Any government is free...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws. And more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there... | |
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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,... 
