 | Edmund Burke - History - 1841 - 928 pages
...existence of a free government itself. If they chose to adopt the principle of bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then indeed they might deprecate agitation ; but in a free country, and under a free government, their... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1842 - 572 pages
...not follow their example. We have heard strange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard " that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;" and jit has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we shall... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1842 - 576 pages
...not follow their example. We have heard strange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard " that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;" and ^it has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we shall... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Forensic orations - 1842 - 574 pages
...collected, and on which they proceed. This is not a country in which it can be constitutionally said, that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. The grounds on which laws are framed, must be understood, — must be approved of, — that the laws... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...away their fortunes in paying tradesmen's bills ?" — of course not. There is one large class who have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and another, somewhat smaller, who have little to do with the laws but to make them. The vulgar debtor... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 658 pages
...away their fortunes in pay ing tradesmen's bills ?" — of course not. There is one large class who have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and another, somewhat smaller, who have little to do with the laws but to make them. The vulgar debtor... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 536 pages
...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we are slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that 'the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious.* There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss... | |
 | Books - 1853 - 858 pages
...reference to Lord Derby's attack on democracy ; but his reference to it was not made so much to disclaim the epithet of " demagogue," as to present a contrast...the others are governed on the principle of fear. He described the attributes of the British Constitution, and showed that its principle is one of life... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
