| Mary Botham Howitt - 1860 - 458 pages
...one man may not hinder the good of a whole country." And again, " It is the great end of government to support power in reverence 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." Shaftesbury... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 pages
...April, 1682, Penn published & frame, of government, the chief object of * which was declared to be " to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power." He also published a body of laws, which had been examined and approved by the emigrants in England;... | |
| John Fletcher Hurst - 1900 - 1020 pages
...that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country. It is the great end of government to support power in reverence 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." Nobly did... | |
| George Hodges - 1901 - 158 pages
...party to those laws." His purpose, he says, is to establish " the great end of all government, viz., to support power in reverence with the people, and...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." In a private letter, written about the same time, Penn stated his political position in several concrete... | |
| Benjamin Harrison - 1901 - 556 pages
...more comprehensive, or more noble than the end and purpose of civil government as described by him: "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... | |
| Pennsylvania Society of New York - 1920 - 194 pages
...venture to read it as one of the promulgations of the great father and advocate of brotherly love : "To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the children from the abusive power, that they may be free by their just obedience and the magistrates... | |
| Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 412 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...Confusion, and Obedience without Liberty is Slavery. To carry this Evenness is partly owing to the Constitution, and partly to the Magistracy : Where either... | |
| Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 412 pages
...and LAWS of this Government, to the great End of all Government, viz. To support Power in Eeverence with the People, and to secure the People from the...Confusion, and Obedience without Liberty is Slavery. To carry this Evenness is partly owing to the Constitution, and partly to the Magistracy : Where either... | |
| Sanford Hoadley Cobb - 1902 - 570 pages
...people from abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration; for liberty without...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." Nothing, surely, could be finer or more just than this declaration and definition. There is something... | |
| Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 pages
...may lack good men for their enforcement. The great end of the Frame of Government was declared to be "to support power in reverence with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power." The opposition of the Quakers to taking the oath and to participation in war involved them at times... | |
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