 | Edmund Burke - 1853 - 876 sider
...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,... | |
 | 604 sider
...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... | |
 | 1797 - 506 sider
...пол-еп:1у; or, rather, am of that cial'fc in fociety who, as a learned prelate pointedly obferved, '• have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them." This would be exaiHy my condition in Ruffia, Turkey, or Spain ; it would be abdird, therefore, in me to... | |
 | 1799 - 598 sider
...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... | |
 | 1809 - 530 sider
...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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1809 - 530 sider
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 436 sider
...should go lianu in hand ; but now the admirable maxims of the late Bishop Ilorsely, of immortal memory, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, nor with the taxes but topay them, are become much more fashionable. It is not long ago we contended... | |
 | political register - 1815 - 650 sider
...should go hand in hand ; but now the admirable maxims of fhe late Bishop Horsely, of immortal memory, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey th^ni, nor with the taxes but topay them, are become much more fashionable, ft is not long ago we contended... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 528 sider
...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... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
