 | John Milton Bonham - Antitrust law - 1888 - 438 pages
...definition of a free government. He says : " Any government is free to the people under it (whatever its frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party...those laws: and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." 2 This definition contains self-contradictions. Besides, when, in the text which prefaces... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 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...laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion."6 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 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 be the frame, whore the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1891 - 308 pages
...Independence Hall. Any Government is Free, whatever be the Form, when the Laws Rule and the People arc a Party to those Laws, and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy and Confusion. Penn's frame of Government. Tablet in Independence Hall. FROM THE STATUE TO BE PLACED... | |
 | George Park Fisher - United States - 1892 - 382 pages
...con- up t^e sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. waa democratic. "Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | George Park Fisher - United States - 1898 - 386 pages
...uP the sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. was democratic. " Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1895 - 606 pages
...of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many. . . . But any government is free to the people under it (whatever...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." While the... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Middle Atlantic States - 1898 - 254 pages
...with his people, is best set forth in his own words: "Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." Without doubt Penn's liberality toward the people sprang from the belief that if he dealt fairly by... | |
 | Benjamin Bushrod Tyler - Society of Friends - 1894 - 552 pages
...counsel of others, he was unquestionably the chief author.2 In the preface he lays down the maxim : " Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." What he meant was shown by his words in one of his early letters respecting the province : " I propose... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 682 pages
...holy experiment. Government is a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end. Any government is free to the people under it, whatever...laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws. Governments depend upon men, not men upon governments. The first principle of Penn's new code recognized... | |
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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. 
