 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1842 - 574 pages
...collected, and on which they proceed. This is not a country in which it can be constitutionally said, that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. The grounds on which laws are framed, must be understood, — must be approved of, — that the laws may... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1842 - 576 pages
...let us not follow their example. We have heard strange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard " that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;" and ^it has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - 572 pages
...let us not follow their example. We have heard strange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard " that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;" and jit has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we arc slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that ' the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious, f There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1848 - 790 pages
...created it with your strong arms; but now we tell you that you are the villeins of the soil, and that you have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The noble Lord said that a great many things should be done for their benefit, though the condition of... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we are slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that 'the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious.* There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 360 pages
...extremes to generate each other. Bishop Horsley had preached the doctrine of passive obedience in the House of Lords, asserting that " man's abuse of his...sunk below contempt, but for such patronage. Among the ablest of them was Arthur Young,—one of those renegades from the cause of freedom, who, like... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 446 pages
...the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but while we live in a free country, and under a free Government,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 408 pages
...the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but, while we live in a free country, and under a free... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
