 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...of government when men discourse on that subject. But I choose, to solve (her controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : Any government is free to ihe people under it, whatever be the frame, \vhere the laws rule end the people are л party to those... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 pages
...government, and that government alone is free, to which we may apply the axiom of William Penn, that " The laws rule, and the people " are a party to those laws." That the legislative authority vested in the Parliament of Great Britain, is most extensive, and supreme,... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...of government, when men converse upon that subject ; but 1 choose to solve the controversy with this distinction, and it belongs to all three. Any government is free to the people under it, taken the laws rule, (whatever be the frame) and the people are a party to those laws. More than this... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1825 - 400 pages
...ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I chtise to solve the controversy with this small distinction, -and it belongs to all three: Any...the- frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a part;/ to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But, lastly, when all... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...marked by the chaste and beautiful simplicity of his style, he declares that that country only is free " where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," — Lest than this, he says, is tyranny, more than this, is anarchy. To attain this enviable state... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 408 pages
...ideas of government when men discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: .Any...where the laws rule and the people are a. party to these laws ; end more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said,... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1827 - 548 pages
...alteration from the lapse of time or the emergency of circumstances, he advances this position, 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, or confusion." " Governments," he insists, "... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1827 - 484 pages
...demonstrates that he had a just conception of the essence of political freedom : " Any government," says he, "is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are parties to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is very certain... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 392 pages
...belongs to all three:i Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be tho frame, where thr laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. '• I know some say, I.ft us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...effects of government that he contended for. " Every government," he says in another passage, " is free, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws. And more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." We find him in several passages... | |
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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,... 
