 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
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Slavery - 1909 - 484 pages
...and 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 laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - United States - 1909 - 618 pages
...people, said he, must rule. "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." In accordance with this principle, Penn at once... | |
 | Albert Elias Maltby - Pennsylvania - 1910 - 536 pages
...colonists in Pennsylvania : "Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the form, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." The words above given set forth a twofold foundation... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1912 - 642 pages
...and of many. . . . But 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 Charter. -yj iKii . y:«5sp N fy-uHj iv tyiiya PN JDMS'IK os^n D'JVB PD D'TPHB OirPEy:iJ"K... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 950 pages
...Government." "Any government," he said, "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." To an age keenly alive to the dangers of the doctrine... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - Pennsylvania - 1913 - 344 pages
...cherish those that do well." "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... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett - United States - 1913 - 954 pages
...Government." "Any government," he said, "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." To an age keenly alive to the dangers of the doctrine... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1302 pages
...American Colonies, said: " 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 tyrancy, oligarchy or confusion." All Constitutions and all plans of Government... | |
 | John Sharp Williams - 1913 - 358 pages
...government is not a bad one. It is this: "Any government is free to the people under it . . . where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." Compare this with Jefferson's definition of a "Pure Republic," which see later. The two constitute... | |
 | Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker - Pennsylvania - 1914 - 328 pages
...America. His view was 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, or confusion." The Duke of York Conveys Additional Territory... | |
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