 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,...  Speeches on Questions of Public Policy - Side 229av John Bright - 1869Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 660 sider
...monarchical or even aristocratical institutions, he believed " any government to be free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | William Robertson (reporter.) - 1884 - 422 sider
...State of Pennsylvania — William Penn — in the prefaee to his Constitution for that provinee — a Constitution of the widest and most generous freedom...party to the laws ; and. more than this is tyranny, oligarehy, or eonfusion.' Now, let us ask ourselves, ean it be fairly said, ean it be said without... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1881 - 624 sider
...But 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...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1886 - 726 sider
...subject. But 1 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...where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy or confusion. * * * * * Governments, like clocks,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1888 - 658 sider
...monarchical or even aristocratical institutions, he believed " any government to be free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | John Milton Bonham - 1888 - 438 sider
...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 to those laws: and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." 2 This definition contains self-contradictions.... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 sider
...government, he lays down this proposition, which was far beyond the general 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,... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1898 - 386 sider
...uP the sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. was democratic. " Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1892 - 382 sider
...con- up t^e sketch of a constitution. His spirit stitntion. waa democratic. "Any government," he said, "is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule the people, and the people are a party to these laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - 1895 - 606 sider
...of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many. . . . But any government is free to the people under it (whatever...where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Liberty without obedience... | |
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