 | Cadwallader Colden - Canada - 1747 - 540 pages
...Men difcourfe on that Subjeft. But I chafe to fclve the Controverfy with this fmall DifiinSfion, and it belongs to all three : Any Government is free to...where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to thole Laws ; and more than this is 'Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufton. BUy Laftly, when all is faid,... | |
 | Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin - London (England) - 1759 - 476 pages
...Petmfylvania ought to have for ever before their Eyes: To wit, i. " Any Government is free to the People " (whatever be the Frame) where the Laws rule and " the People are a Party to thofe Laws: And more " than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufion." 2. " To fupport Power in Reverence... | |
 | James Murray - United States - 1780 - 626 pages
...men dlfcourfe on that fubjeft. But I chufe to folve the controverfy With this fmall diftinftion, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to thofe laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confufion. O o But after rob or fpeil, by... | |
 | Robert Proud - Delaware - 1797 - 522 pages
...fliall ferve all places alike;"—" Any 1682. government is free to the people under it (whatxv>^ ever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to thofe laws; and more than this is tyranny, olygarchy, or confufion."— ** There is hardly one frame... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 486 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...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power,... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...modes, he observes, that he finds no single model which circumstances have not altered ; and that " any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." One of his fundamental laws is well worth transcribing : " That all persons in this province, who confess... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...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...whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the people art •a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny ', oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly,... | |
 | Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...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...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." The pith and marrow of the doctrine consists, and is evidently intended to consist, in the last sentence,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
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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. 
