 | Robert Proud - Delaware - 1797 - 522 pages
...fliall ferve all places alike;"—" Any 1682. government is free to the people under it (whatxv>^ ever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to thofe laws; and more than this is tyranny, olygarchy, or confufion."— ** There is hardly one frame... | |
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 544 pages
...this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 582 pages
...this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...model which circumstances have not altered ; and that " 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." One of his fundamental laws is well worth transcribing : " That all persons in this province, who confess... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the people art •a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny ', oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there 13 hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed... | |
 | Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." The pith and marrow of the doctrine consists, and is evidently intended to consist, in the last sentence,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 pages
...government, and that government alone is free, to which we may apply the axiom of William Penn, that " The laws rule, and the people " are a party to those laws." That the legislative authority vested in the Parliament of Great Britain, is most extensive, and supreme,... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...marked by the chaste and beautiful simplicity of his style, he declares that that country only is free " where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," — Lest than this, he says, is tyranny, more than this, is anarchy. To attain this enviable state... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 392 pages
...belongs to all three:i Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be tho frame, where thr laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. '• I know some say, I.ft us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute... | |
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I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: 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,... 
