 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 830 pages
...sacred in its institution and end ; that any government is free to the people under it, whatever be its frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. He declared that governments depend upon men, not men upon governments; and he guaranteed... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...God.' " Another of William Penn's principles was, that ' any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the...those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' He knew no more concise and perfect description of civil and political liberty than... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 pages
...God.' " Another of William Penn's principles was, that ' any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the...those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' He knew no more concise and perfect description of civil and political liberty than... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Religion - 1882 - 526 pages
...government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and 'the people arc a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion.' He knew no more concise and perfect description of civil and political liberty than... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 620 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. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." SEAL AND SIGNATURES... | |
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1884 - 311 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...party to those laws; and more than this is tyranny r oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty... | |
 | 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
...was far beyond the general spirit of that age, that " any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the...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
...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, or confusion."6 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
