 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1927 - 82 pages
...as well as the letter of his laws. " Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be its frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." Despite the string attached to... | |
 | Calvin Olin Davis - High schools - 1927 - 320 pages
...province that bore his name, he said, "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be its frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The Declaration of Independence voiced the spirit when it flung out the nowfamous utterances,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 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. But, lastly, when all is said,... | |
 | Jean R. Soderlund - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...when men discourse of 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. But lastly, when all is said, there... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1992 - 322 pages
...government. Most interesting is the statement at such an early date of the concept of the rule of law: "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." The purpose of the frame is to secure the people from the abuse of power and to keep the... | |
 | Patrick Joyce - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 260 pages
...to solve the controversy [between monarchy, aristocracy and democracy] with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free...the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are party to the laws... let men be good and the government cannot be bad ... But if men be bad, let the... | |
 | Scott Tucker - Gay liberation movement - 1997 - 284 pages
...Quakers. William Penn, designing and writing his "Frame of Government for Pennsylvania" in 1682, wrote, "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." He believed if citizens were only good enough, even a bad frame of government would serve... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 1999 - 756 pages
...its merit, as we would do with any other political judgment of substantial magnitude. XI. CONCLUSION Any government Is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) when the laws rule, and the people are a party to these laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
 | Frank H. Knight - Business & Economics - 1999 - 466 pages
...possible way. The true maxim was well stated in William Penn's "Frame of Government" for Pennsylvania: "A government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws."7 The reason why Hayek in his pretentiously detailed history does not mention such crucial... | |
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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,... 
