 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...government prepared for Pennsylvania, 1682, declared that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws. Proud"? Hist- of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7. Bacon's Laws, 1638, ch. 2. • Atinot's Hist- of... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...men discourse ou the 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." 3 JI. Benj. Constant; Coll. des Ouvrages Politiques; Paris, 1S\S, Tom. 1, p. 174, n. " M. de Montesquieu,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three, any government is free to...people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyrauny, oligarchy, or confusion," ' Lanjuiuais' Constitutions, t. 1, p. 97, " S'il n'ya des lois constitutionelles,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongl to all three, any goverument is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame)...people are a party to those laws, and more than this U tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." * Lanjuinais' Constitutions, t. 1, p. 97, " S'il n'ya des loia... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...by the statute called cofifirmatio cartarum,(i) whereby the great (») 2 Inat. proem. (<) 26 Edw. 1. be the frame, where the laws rule and the people are...those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." It is certainly true that law in its turn may be a tyrant, whether enacted by the will... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - Society of Friends - 1860 - 116 pages
...solving the controversy respecting government, he says : " Any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to...those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion." — (See Appendix to Proud's History of Pennsylvania.) These were evidently general... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 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...laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, aml more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | John Bright - Great Britain - 1866 - 88 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... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 724 pages
...government prepared for Pennsylvania, in 1682, declared that any government is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws. Proud 's Hist, of Pennsylvania, vol. ii. App. p. 7 ; Bacon's Laws, 1638, eh. 2. (a) Minot's Hist, of... | |
 | Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 834 pages
...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 to...(whatever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the 2?eople are a party to those laivs, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But, lastly,... | |
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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. 
