| Jean R. Soderlund - 1983 - 436 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... | |
| Patrick Joyce - 1994 - 260 pages
...wish to thank Professor AG Dyson of Manchester University for directing me to this work. reference with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power ... for liberty without obedience is confusion and obedience without liberty is slavery.' 60 These... | |
| Barbara Allen - 2005 - 418 pages
...external corrective of just law, justly applied. Popular sovereignty was not an end in itself but a means "to secure the people from the abuse of power, that...obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery."83 Community was thus the primary site of governance; social control was to come foremost... | |
| Sheldon Hackney - 180 pages
...and the People are a Party to those Laws, and more than this is Tyranny, Oligarchy or Confusion.... For Liberty without Obedience is Confusion, and Obedience without Liberty is Slavery" (Dunn and Dunn, 1982: 213-14). In 1701, after years of bickering about the powers of the Assembly,... | |
| Carole J Keller - 2006 - 321 pages
...with the people must be accountable to the laws (of God): ". . .the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and...confusion and obedience without liberty is slavery. " [Donald S. Lutz, Introductory Essay, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution- A Documentary... | |
| John Milton Mackie, Frank E. Grizzard - 2006 - 170 pages
...who in drawing up a frame of fundamental law for that colony, declared the end of government to be, "to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power."2 It will be borne in mind, in entering upon an examination of the first Administration, that,... | |
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