 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
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 832 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... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Hendrick Bradley Wright - Labor - 1871 - 414 pages
...truthfulness and force, that "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 and confusion. But when all is said there " is hardly one frame... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - Pennsylvania - 1874 - 294 pages
...HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. 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 AND CONFUSION. Pcan'i Frame of Hotmtnmt. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...centuries later gave utterance, when he said : "That government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and all the rest is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." Conceding that lawlessness is not a novel phenomenon,... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Peace - 1876 - 190 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." "Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1919 - 418 pages
...his Frame of Government: "Any Government is free to the People under it (whatever the Frame), where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to those Laws, and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy or Confusion. * * * Governments, like Clocks, go from the motion... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1878 - 762 pages
...its institution and end. 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. Governments depend upon men, not men upon governments. The first principle of Penn's new code recognized... | |
 | Pennsylvania - Courts - 1879 - 650 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, and confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 244 pages
...Pennsylvania, as follows: "Any government is free to the people under it, no matter what its form, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more or less than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion." The richness and the profundity of this... | |
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