 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,...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 1121834Full view - About this book
 | james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...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 ie tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.—Governments, like clocks, go from the motion... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...serve all places alike." "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. " There is hardly one frame of government in the... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...prepared for Pennsylvania, 1682, declared that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws. Proud"? Hist- of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. • Atinot's Hist- of... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...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, oligarchy, or confusion." 3 JI. Benj. Constant; Coll. des Ouvrages Politiques;... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...cofifirmatio cartarum,(i) whereby the great (») 2 Inat. proem. (<) 26 Edw. 1. be the frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is certainly true that law in its turn may... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - Society of Friends - 1860 - 116 pages
...in his Preface to the Laws of Pennsylvania : " Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." In Friends' Society the people never were a party... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...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, aml more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...prepared for Pennsylvania, in 1682, declared that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws. Proud's Hist. of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7 ; Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. (a) Minot's Hist. of... | |
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