...should go hand in hand ; but now the admirable maxims of fhe late Bishop Horsely, of immortal memory, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey th^ni, nor with the taxes but topay them, are become much more fashionable, ft is not long ago we contended...

...let us not follow their example. We have heard strange 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 said, " that the parliament belongs to the King and not to the people." I hope we shall...

...the English people. And who then shjil ever more presume to cry down papular rights, or tell us lhat the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey fhere, — with the taxes, but to pay them, — and with the blunders of their rulers, but to suffer...

...proved so ; but at present 1 am inclined to think that I have erred on the contrary side. We have heard, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; " and it has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we shall...

...petition for their redress or remonstrate against them, they are slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," was as odious as it was fallacious, and when he said that, he by no means intended any reflection on...

...part of the Constitution '?•* If you were to tell us, indeed, as the late Bishop of Rochester did, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. That the word representative was used merely to flatter fools. That BLACKSTONE, when he says, that...

...would start with horror from that which Fletcher proposed to establish. Such are they who maintain, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them." The evils of his scheme, as relating to the condition of its objects, are, that it would be continually...

...would start with horror from that which Fletcher proposed to establish. Such are they who maintain, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them." The evils of his scheme, as relating to the condition of its objects, are, that it would be continually...

...with the legitimate doctrine, that the people are made for the convenience of their rulers ; that they have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; and they measured their exactions more by the fancied and evergrowing wants of their masters, than by the...

...with the legitimate doctrine, that the people are made for the convenience of their rulers; that they have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and they measured their exactions more by the fancied and ever-growing wants of their masters, than by...