...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the English people. And who then shjil ever more presume to cry down papular rights, or tell us lhat the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey fhere, — with the taxes, but to pay them, — and with the blunders of their rulers, but to suffer...