 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...hi* statement prefatory to the " frame and laws " of his government are the following pa>sai:i-= : "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." " There is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders that,... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 244 pages
...Pennsylvania, as follows: "Any government is free to the people under it, no matter what its form, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more or less than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion." The richness and the profundity of this remark... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 830 pages
...sacred in its institution and 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... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 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...those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion. " But, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...government itself is a venerable ordinance of God.' " Another of William Penn's principles was, that ' any government is free to the people under it, whatever...those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' He knew no more concise and perfect description of civil and political liberty than... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Religion - 1882 - 526 pages
...government .itself is a venerable ordinance of God.' " Another of William Penn's principles was, that ' any government is free to the people under it, whatever...be the frame, where the laws rule and 'the people arc a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' He knew no more... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - Great Britain - 1889 - 606 pages
...that province — a Constitution of the widest and most generous freedom — uses these words : — ' Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. Now, let us ask ourselves, can it... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 620 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...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." SEAL AND SIGNATURES... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 311 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...party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny r oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - Education - 1886 - 720 pages
...men discourse on the subject. 13ut I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion. ***** Governments, like clocks,... | |
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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. 
