 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 311 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, —...party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny r oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - Education - 1886 - 726 pages
...ideas of government when men discourse on the subject. But 1 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 ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion. * * * * * Governments, like clocks,... | |
 | John Milton Bonham - Antitrust law - 1888 - 438 pages
...definition of a free government. He says : " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever its frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party...those laws: and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." 2 This definition contains self-contradictions. Besides, when, in the text which prefaces... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...government, he lays down this proposition, which was far beyond the general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion."6 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...government, he lays down this proposition, which was far beyond the general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, whore the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1891 - 308 pages
...Independence Hall. Any Government is Free, whatever be the Form, when the Laws Rule and the People arc a Party to those Laws, and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy and Confusion. Penn's frame of Government. Tablet in Independence Hall. FROM THE STATUE TO BE PLACED... | |
 | George Park Fisher - United States - 1898 - 386 pages
...uP the sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. was democratic. " Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | George Park Fisher - United States - 1892 - 382 pages
...con- up t^e sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. waa democratic. "Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1895 - 606 pages
...of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many. . . . But any government is free to the people under it (whatever...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." While the... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Middle Atlantic States - 1898 - 254 pages
...with his people, is best set forth in his own words: "Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Without doubt Penn's liberality toward the people sprang from the belief that if he dealt fairly by... | |
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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,... 
