...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...

...petition for their redress or remonstrate against them, they are slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," was as odious as it was fallacious, and when he said that, he by no means intended any reflection on...

...command, as it is their duty to yield implicit submission : they must be habitually convinced that they have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The forms of the constitution must be calculated to keep out of view the rights of subjects, to present...

...part of the Constitution '?•* If you were to tell us, indeed, as the late Bishop of Rochester did, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. That the word representative was used merely to flatter fools. That BLACKSTONE, when he says, that...

...would start with horror from that which Fletcher proposed to establish. Such are they who maintain, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them." The evils of his scheme, as relating to the condition of its objects, are, that it would be continually...

...would start with horror from that which Fletcher proposed to establish. Such are they who maintain, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them." The evils of his scheme, as relating to the condition of its objects, are, that it would be continually...

...occasions ttiat our government there ever has been, now is, and always must be, a despotism, iu which the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. This proclamation, however, united •with the cruel treatment by the Burmese of such of ill.'. Assamese...

...the press is shackled by penal restrictions ; and when hired teachers will tell the people that they have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ? The melioration of mankind by means of political revolutions, is, indeed, a noble subject of speculation...