...divided the governments into those high monarchical ones in which the sovereign is a paternal despot and the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and those few governments in which, with an hereditary sovereign and an upper chamber of legislation,...

...efteem, the danger would be infinitely increafed. tie was afraid that the converfe of that femiment, " that the People have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them," would be adopted, and that the People would be led to think that they had every thing to do with laws...

...caudari." — As this change of lhape may afford a good additional reafon why fuch fellows fliould have " nothing to do with the laws, but " to obey them," the bifhop perhaps will advife to fink what Polydore kindly adds in conclufion, — " Sed ea infamise nota...

...malium caudari."—As this change of fhape may afford a good additional reafon why fuch fellows mould have " nothing to do with the laws, but " to obey them," the bifliop perhap- will advife to fink what Polydore kindly adds in conclufion,;—" Sed ea infamias nota...

...revolution. It prompted in our own time, one of the mitred fronts to declare in the Britiih Senate, that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them, and has turned the eftablifhed clergy of Ireland, into hunters of their wretched countrymen, to enjoy...

...him in the present session declaring, in his place in the House of Lords, that 14 the people liave nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. " '...too, had lately given countenance to writers, the ataurd slavishness of whose doctrines would have sunk below contempt, but for such patronage. Among...

...of the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to -cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them, — with the taxes, but to pay them, — and with the blunders of their rulers, but to suffer from...

...command, as it is their duty to yield implicit fubmiflion : they muft be habitually convinced that they have nothing to do with. the laws but to obey them. The forms of the conftitution muft be calculated to keep out of view the rights of fubjefts, to prefent...

...office of reporter, lately established by authority of the legislature. In arbitrary governments, where the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, a work of this kind would be highly useful, tho' hardly to be expected ; for decisions and precedents,...

...of the English people. And who then shall ever more presume to cry down popular rights, or tell us that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them,—with the taxes, but to pay them,—and with the blunders of their rulers, but to surfer from...