| Richard Carlile - 1823 - 874 pages
...of making laws to command whole politic societies of men, belongeth so properly unto the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate of what...received from God, or else by authority derived at first from their consent, upon whose persons they impose the laws, it is no better than mere tyranny.... | |
| William Orme - 1830 - 526 pages
...of making laws to command whole politic societies of men, belongeth so properly to the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate, of what...received from God, or else by authority derived at first from their consent, upon whose persons they impose laws, it is no better than mere tyranny. Laws... | |
| John Stetson Barry - 1856 - 536 pages
...by express commission immediately and personally reIX ccived from God, or else authority received at first from their consent upon whose persons they impose laws, — it is no better than mere tyranny."1 To the correctness of this doctrine the American people readily subscribed ; and the acts... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1921 - 496 pages
...man's will became the cause of all men's misery," and summing up, with the half-ironical conclusion: for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth to exercise the same [power] of himself, and not either by express commission, immediately and personally received from... | |
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