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,... The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada - Page 205by Cadwallader Colden - 1747 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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
...when 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...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... | |
| John Marshall - 1805 - 544 pages
...when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free...where 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... | |
| John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 582 pages
...when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free...where 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... | |
| 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 people are a party to those laws : and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...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...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,... | |
| 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...where the 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,... | |
| Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...-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...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." The pith and marrow of the doctrine... | |
| 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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