 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1904 - 396 pages
...Soc., Memoirs, I., 212. divided upon. I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction: any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Let men be good and the government... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1907 - 578 pages
...his plans for its government. He believed "any government to be free to the people under it (whatever the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws." With deep consideration and probably with the wise counsel of Algernon Sydney and others,... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas, Richard Henry Thomas - Society of Friends - 1905 - 256 pages
...counsel of others, he was unquestionably the chief author.* In the preface he lays down the maxim : " Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." What he meant was shown by his... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1906 - 584 pages
...when men discourse on the subject. But I chuse 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. Governments like clocks go from... | |
 | Karl Lamprecht - United States - 1906 - 184 pages
...United States. 3nfd^riften im ©taaten^aufe ju ^l)ilabelp^ta : 1. 2luê ^Jennê Frame of Government: Any Government is free to the people under it whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. 2. 2luê ber Unabbängigfeitêerflänmg... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 556 pages
...seal — "Mercy and Jusand end ; that any government is free to the people under it, whatever be its frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. He declared that governments depend upon men, not men upon governments; and he guaranteed... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 794 pages
...said in his Frame of Government, that : " Any governmen t is free to the people under it whatever may be the frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy and Confusion." These words inscribed on the walls... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 614 pages
...than Penn expressed in a single sentence. "Any government is free to the people under it, whatever may 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." Again he says, "Governments, like... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 664 pages
...against the good of the things they know." The form, Penn concluded, did not matter much after all. "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) when the laws rule and the people are party to these laws." Good men were to be preferred even above... | |
 | Netherlands - 1927 - 420 pages
...het voorwoord schrijft Penn: „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 and confusion. 59) HL Osgood. The american colonies... | |
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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,... 
