 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1836 - 606 pages
...Pennsylvania ought to have for ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the...party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 624 pages
...Pennsylvania ought to have for ever before their eyes ; to wit ; 1 . " Any government is free to the people (whatever be the frame), where the laws rule and the...party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people... | |
 | Job Roberts Tyson - United States - 1842 - 72 pages
...nature of that representative system, which he designed to introduce. " Any government," he observes, " is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are parties to those lairs; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion."J In conformity with... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 442 pages
...the best, in ill hands, will do nothing good. " Any government is free to the people under it when the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. In drawing up his constitution, Penn... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...government 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. Prand's Hist. of PennsylBania, vol. ii. app. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. . Minot's Hist. of Massachusetts,... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Pennsylvania - 1849 - 444 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 government is free to the people under if, whatever be the frame, where tlie laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...to secure the people from the abuse of power." For William Penn observes, " that government is free where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." While William Perm was anxious to guard against the abuses of power, the effects of which he had sorrowfully... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Delaware - 1850 - 676 pages
...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...But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill-designed by its first founders, that in good hands would not... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Delaware - 1850 - 684 pages
...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...But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill-designed by its first founders, that in good hands would not... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 598 pages
...promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize; and yet it was the... | |
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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,... 
