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The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the ... - Page 299
by Cadwallader Colden - 1902
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Free Trade and the League: A Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom ...

Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...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...they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrate honourable for their just administration ; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and...
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The History of Pennsylvania from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 pages
...and laws of this government, to the great end of all government, viz., to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the...and partly to the magistracy ; where either of these fall, government will be subject to convulsions ; but where both are wanting, it must be totally subverted;...
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the history of the society of friends in america

james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...warp and spoil it to their turn. It is the great end of all 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 frame...
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The History of the Society of Friends in America, Volume 2

James Bowden - Society of Friends - 1854 - 426 pages
...warp and spoil it to their turn. It is the great end of all 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 frame...
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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs ...

John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1855 - 686 pages
...skill, contrived and composed the frame and law of this government, viz. to support power in reference with the people, and to secure the people from the...confusion, and obedience without liberty, is slavery. Where the laws rule, and the people are a party, any government is free ; more than this is tyranny,...
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Contributions to American History: 1858

Alexander Johnston, James Gallatin, William Penn, William Bradford Reed, Charles John Biddle - Acadians - 1858 - 460 pages
...skill, so to contrive and compose his frame and laws of government, as to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, holding that government alone to be free, where the laws rule and the people are parties to the laws."...
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History of the Religious Society of Friends: From Its Rise to the ..., Volume 3

Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Society of Friends - 1867 - 516 pages
...the preamble, Penn defines " the great end of all government to be : to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the...confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery." The code of laws, drafted in England, and passed with amendments by the first Colonial Assembly, was...
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History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 pages
...have the same liberty of private traffique, as though there were no society at all. "(2) 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,...
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History of the Institution of the Sabbath Day: Its Uses and Abuses; with ...

William Logan Fisher - Sabbath - 1859 - 260 pages
...summed up by William Penn, were, that " the object of government is to support power with reverence to the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power."* I have before alluded to the anti-toleration principles in New England. The London Presbyterian ministers...
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A Popular History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volume 1

Mary Botham Howitt - United States - 1860 - 458 pages
...good of a whole country." And again, " 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." Shaftesbury...
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