 | 1764 - 666 σελίδες
...Paragraphs of this Difcourfe, the People of Penfj/vaitia onjht to have for ever before their Eyei, via. i. " Any Government is free to the People where the Laws rule, and the People a>ea Party to thofe Laws ; and more than this is Tyranny and Opprtflion. ». To fpppoit Power in Reverence... | |
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 544 σελίδες
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 582 σελίδες
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1809 - 486 σελίδες
...for ever before their eyes: to wit, 1. " Any government is free to the people (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." 2. " To support power in reverence with... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 402 σελίδες
...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, oligarchy, or confusion." The pith and marrow of the doctrine consists,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 470 σελίδες
...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, oligarchy, or confusion. But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly... | |
 | Andrew MARSHALL (D.D.), James Lewis - 1830 - 174 σελίδες
...not the people for governments ; and that it is only where, according to the axiom of William Penn, " the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws," that a government is free. Yet this freedom of legislating for itself, gives a Christian nation no... | |
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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,... 
