...pursued by England since the Revolution to Ireland. His indictment culminated in the assertion that ' all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery'. A stirring agitation following the publication of The Drapier's Letters, Government instituted a prosecution...

...bring ruin upon the country. In his fourth letter he asserted the independence of Ireland, and that " government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. " As a result the monopoly was universally condemned and had to be withdrawn. His most widely known...

...truth, reason and justice are capable of opposing) by the famous Mr. Molyneux, an English gentleman born here, as well as by several of the greatest patriots,...prevailed. Indeed the arguments on both sides were invincibly. 'For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition...

...the same king with them, and consequently they have been obliged to have the same king with us. . . . In reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. We have nothing to do with the English ministers, and I would be as sorry if it lay in their power...

...government were derived from the consent of the governed. It was Dean Swift, and not an American, who wrote "all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery"; 49 and the manifold problem of centuries has been— and still is—to determine what is a nation,...

...truth, reason and justice are capable of opposing) by the famous Mr. Molineux, an English gentleman born here, as well as by several of the greatest patriots...is the very definition of slavery ; but, in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt."7 Knowing the men with whom...

...One and one-half million Irishmen who live under the heel of a British Gestapo system believe that government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of tyranny. Millions of Irishmen living outside the occupied zone resent the tyranny of a British Government...

...Ireland was rightfully a free nation, which implied that it had the power of self-legislation ; for ' government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.' This letter was sustained by other pamphlets, and by ballads which were sung through the streets, and...

...Whole People of Ireland" (1724), a series of pamphlets commonly called Drapier's Letters; in Letter 4: "For, in reason, all government without the consent...governed, is the very definition of slavery: but, in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt." 15.4407 (588:24). The bold...

...of two Irish men of genius — Jonathan Swift and Edmund Burke. They were agreed on certain maxims. 'All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery',1 wrote Swift in the Fourth of the Drapier's Letters. The remote and efficient cause of the...