 | 604 pages
...the danger would be infinitely increafed. tie was afraid that the converfe of that femiment, " that the People have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them," would be adopted, and that the People would be led to think that they had every thing to do with laws... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1796 - 872 pages
...original elements. He had heard indeed that it had been faid, that the people of this, or of any country, have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and that this (trange aflertion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others are taught... | |
 | J DEBRETT - 1796 - 842 pages
...original elements. He had heard indeed that it had been faid, that the people of this, or of any country, have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and that this ftrangc affcrtion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others are taught... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1797 - 792 pages
...faithful difcharge of a great public duty. 1 have heard of fomc very ft range do£lrines ; '• that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them;" and " that the Parliament' of this country is erroncoufly called the Parliament of the People ; for that,... | |
 | Ireland - 1799 - 598 pages
...revolution. It prompted in our own time, one of the mitred fronts to declare in the Britiih Senate, that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them, and has turned the eftablifhed clergy of Ireland, into hunters of their wretched countrymen, to enjoy the... | |
 | 630 pages
...npt follow their example. We have heard ftrange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard ' that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ;' and it has been faid, ' that the Parliament belongs to the King, and not to the People. I hope we ftiall... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to -cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them, — with the taxes, but to pay them, — and with the blunders of their rulers, but to suffer from... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...office of reporter, lately established by authority of the legislature. In arbitrary governments, where the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, a work of this kind would be highly useful, tho' hardly to be expected ; for decisions and precedents,... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them,—with the taxes, but to pay them,—and with the blunders of their rulers, but to surfer from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1815 - 436 pages
...lianu in hand ; but now the admirable maxims of the late Bishop Ilorsely, of immortal memory, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, nor with the taxes but topay them, are become much more fashionable. It is not long ago we contended... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
