 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 486 pages
...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 the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power,... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the people art •a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny...confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there 13 hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders, that in good... | |
 | Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...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, and is evidently intended to consist, in the last sentence,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...those laws ; and morethan this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. " But, lastly, wnVn all iļ sauf, ' there is hardly one frame of government in the world so ill designed byits first founders, that in good hands would not do well enough ; and story tells us, that the best... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 408 pages
...laws rule and the people are a. party to these laws ; end more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. " But, lastly, when all is said, there...world so ill designed by its first founders, that in jpod hands would not do well enough ; and story tells us, that the lest in ill ones can do nothing... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 392 pages
...to all three:i Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be tho frame, where thr laws rule and the people are a party to those laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion. '• I know some say, I.ft us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute... | |
 | Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 pages
...philosophical sentiments which it contains are not beyond the comprehension even of juvenile readers. " But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one...founders, that in good hands would not do well enough 5 and story tells us, that the best in ill ones can do nothing that is great and good ; witness the... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 470 pages
...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...But lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frama of government in the world so ill designed by its first founders, that in good hands would not... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...that age, 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; and...more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." 2 In that frame of government, after providing for the organization of it under the government of a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...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." His summary of the objects he had in view while laying down the frame of a government, is admirable.... | |
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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. 
