...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...

...rule of conduct for the intercourse of nations. While he recognised 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...

...obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration; are the great ends of government. For liberty without obedience, is confusion, and obedience without liberty, is slavery."* Time, and experience in the science of government, may have suggested to legislators some material...

...sublime political enterprise than that of the founder of Pennsylvania. Never was there a legislation more boldly marked with that unity of intention which is...thus liberal and temperate, his first care was to devest himself of the almost arbitrary power with which he had been intrusted, and to establish a form...

...lesson to succeeding legislators. Here we find distinctly announced, the great object of government, " to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power." For William Penn observes, " that government is free where the laws rule, and the people are a party...

...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." It will be borne in mind, in entering upon an examination of the first Administration, that, at its...

...skill contrived and composed the frame and laws of this government to the great end of goverrjment, to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of pouter, that they may lie free by their -just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just...

...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." Again, he says, " I desired to show men as free and as happy as they can be," — sentiments which...

...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...

...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...