 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,...  Our Community Life - Pagina 371de Clyde Lyndon King, James Lynn Barnard - 1926 - 610 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1747 - 540 pagini
...voben Men difcourfe on that Subjeft. But I chafe to fclve the Controverfy with this fmall DifiinSfion, and it belongs to all three : Any Government is free...where the Laws rule, and the People are a Party to thole Laws ; and more than this is 'Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufton. BUy Laftly, when all is faid,... | |
 | Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin - 1759 - 476 pagini
...Petmfylvania ought to have for ever before their Eyes: To wit, i. " Any Government is free to the People " (whatever be the Frame) where the Laws rule and " the People are a Party to thofe Laws: And more " than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy, or Confufion." 2. " To fupport Power in Reverence... | |
 | James Murray - 1780 - 626 pagini
...when men dlfcourfe on that fubjeft. But I chufe to folve the controverfy With this fmall diftinftion, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free...where the laws rule, and the people are a party to thofe laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confufion. O o But after rob or fpeil, by... | |
 | Robert Proud - 1797 - 522 pagini
...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 pagini
...many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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 - 1804 - 582 pagini
...many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1809 - 486 pagini
...Pennsylvania ought to have 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...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2. " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power,... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1813 - 562 pagini
...many, and are the three common ideas of government when men discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 pagini
...modes, he observes, that he finds no single model which circumstances have not altered ; and that " any government is free to the people under it (whatever...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 pagini
...many, and are the three common ideas of government -when men discourse on that subject. But I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction,...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,... | |
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