...gentlemen fearful of trusting the People ? Shall we hear, at this day, the slavish doctrine avowed, "that the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and no concern with the Constitution, but to live under it?" No: it comports not with the spirit of...

...reprobate agitation merely as agitation, unless he is prepared to adopt the maxim of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is that agitation is inseparable from popular government. If you wish to get rid of agitation,...

...who did not deal in quackery, that, not holding with his lordship the bishop of Rochester's maxim, that " The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them" I used the freedom to take the dissecting knife to said act of parliament, and pointed out its imperfections...

...Occasions that our government there ever has been, now is, and always must be, a despotism, in which the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. TbU proclamation, however, united with the cruel treatment by the Burmese of such of the Assamese as...