 ... 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 just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion,...  The Port Folio - Page 2851817Full view - About this book
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1890 - 664 pages
...our skill contrived and composed the frame of this government to the great end of all government, — to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power."4 " Whoever is right," said he, " the persecutor must be wrong." 6 From the beginning, a part... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 354 pages
...our skill contrived and composed the frame of this government to the great end of all government, — to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power."4 " Whoever is right," said he, " the persecutor must be wrong." * From the beginning, a part... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1879 - 650 pages
...to a compliance, that we have (with reverence to God, and good conscience to men) to the beat of our skill, contrived and composed the FRAME and LAWS of...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,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1879 - 356 pages
...skill contrived and composed the frame of this government to the great end of all government,—to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power." 4 " Whoever is right," said he, " the persecutor must be wrong." 5 From the beginning, a part of the... | |
 | 1880 - 698 pages
...a rule of conduct for the intercourse of nations. While he recognized as a great end of government, "to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from abuse of power," he declined the superfluous protection of arms against foreign force, and "aimed to... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - 1882 - 526 pages
...private patrimonies. " We have, with reverence to God and good conscience to men, t<j the best of our skill, contrived and composed the frame and laws of this Government to the great end of government, to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 pages
...private patrimonies. " We have, with reverence to God and good conscience to men, to the best of our skill, contrived and composed the frame and laws of this Government to the great end of government, to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 660 pages
...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." Taking counsel,... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1884 - 828 pages
...endangered. His scheme is thus epitomized in his own language : " 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." His policy... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pages
...political principles which afterwards inspired the constitution of the United States. It was their object " to support power in reverence with the people, and...secure the people from the abuse of power ; that they might be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration."... | |
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