 | Andrew MARSHALL (D.D.), James Lewis - Church and state - 1830 - 174 pages
...not the people for governments ; and that it is only where, according to the axiom of William Penn, " the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," that a government is free. Yet this freedom of legislating for itself, gives a Christian nation no... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 pages
...demonstrates that he had a just conception of the essence of political Freedom: "Any government," says he, "is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where ihe. laics mle, and the people are partle* to those laws,- and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...forty-four articles. One of them was, that " any government is free to the people under it (whichever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." His fundamental law with respect to religion was, that all persons in the province who acknowledged... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...government, he lays down this proposition, which was far beyond the general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government of a... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1833 - 556 pages
...alteration from the lapse of time or the emergency of circumstances, he advances this position, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." " Governments," he insists, "... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...meu discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, aud it belongs to all three ; any government is free to...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, anil more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1834 - 438 pages
...man may not hinder the good of a whole country. A government is free to the people under it, when- the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws." And in this view, in an age when despotism was on the advance, he determined, according to his own sublime... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...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 to...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view while laying down the frame of a government, is admirable.... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 466 pages
...alteration from the lapse of time or 1682. the emergency of circumstances, he advances this position, that "any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." "Governments," he insists, "rather... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1836 - 606 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...party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, obligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people... | |
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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, oligarchy, or confusion. 
