 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...with this distinction, that 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 Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 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." 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
...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 tyrauny, oligarchy, or confusion," ' Lanjuiuais' Constitutions, t. 1, p. 97, " S'il n'ya des lois constitutionelles,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...this small distinction, and it belongl to all three, any goverument 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 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
...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, aml more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." His summary of the objects he had in view... | |
 | 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 - 832 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... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...in the language of the noble founder of my State, that ' that country is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.' The very essence of anarchy is opposition to all government whatever and the absence of all law. The... | |
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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,... 
