 | 1818 - 708 pages
...and commenced a settlement there. The plan of his new constitution had for its object, we are told, " to support power in reverence with the people, and...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." In 1682, tlu's good, intrepid, and amiable Quaker, visited Pennsylvania, and convoked the first assembly... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...government that shall serve all places alike.' Ihe great end of government is to support and maintain power in reverence with the people, and to secure...liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience tcitltout liberty it slavery" ******* Previous to embarking, William Penn went to take leave of King... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 508 pages
...noble dignity and simplicity, " that the great end of government was 1819.] Verplanck's Discourse. 431 to support power in reverence with the people, and...thus liberal and temperate, his first care was to devest himself of the almost arbitrary power with which he had been intrusted, and to establish a form... | |
 | Frederick Butler - 1821 - 474 pages
...patrimony. " The design of the following Constitution, i» to promote the end of all governments, viz. to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abusf of power : that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistratef honourable for... | |
 | Frances Wright - 1821 - 880 pages
...intention of their first legislator was to " frame a government for the support of power, that should be in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power," neither he nor his immediate successors could effect tliis most desirable object. The convention called... | |
 | John Marshall - 1824 - 502 pages
...proprietors, productive of considerable inconvenience and irritation to both. CHAP. vI. 1689. pie, and to secure the people from the abuse of power:...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.'' This scheme of fundamental law contains many provisions indicating good sense and just notions of government,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1824 - 500 pages
...of power in reverence with the peopie, and to secure the people from the abuse of power: CHAP, vr. that they may be free by their just obedience, and...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.'' This scheme of fundamental law contains many provisions indicating good sense and just notions of government,... | |
 | William Darby - 1824 - 170 pages
...political power. They declare their intent to be : '•'•for the support of power in reverence to the people ; and to secure the people from the abuse of power. For, liberty -without obedience is confusion ; and obedience -without liberty is slavery." In prosecution... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 pages
...contrived and composed the frame and laws of this government, to the great end of all government, viz. To support power in reverence with the people, and...free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable, for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 204 pages
...charter of William Penn, — the intent of these fundamental constitutions, was " for the support of power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power ; since liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." The operation,... | |
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LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their... 
