...men, according to the best capacity of their framcrs, to answer the great end of all government, viz., to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that the people may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable...

...mischief ; that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country.''2 — " 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."...

...destined to brighten ns men advance in virtue, of first in human history establishing the Jinw of Lnve. as a rule of conduct for the intercourse of nations....arms against foreign force, and " aimed to reduce the savnpe nations by jnst and gentle manners to the love of civil society and the Christian religion."...

...which, as its preamble sets out, was "contrived, and composed to the great end of all government, viz. to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience and the magistrates, honorable for...

...To William Penn belongs the distinction, destined to brighten as men advance in virtue, of first, in human history, establishing the Law of Love as a rule...reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power,' he declined the superfluous protection of arms against foreign force, and 'aimed...

...Society. The next spring he completed a frame of government (April 25, 1682), with the express design " to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power." It is prefaced with a long discourse on the nature, origin, use and abuse of government...

..."is free to the people under it, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to these laws." " To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power ; that the people * See trial of Penn and Mead. Penn's select works, folio p. 161....

...intention in framing this justly celebrated form of government he thus describes : — " For the support of power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that they may be free by their just obedience ; for liberty without obedience is...

...proclaiming to his people, in words of noble dignity and simplicity, " that the great end of government was to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power, that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for...

...wonderfully correct for the time, may be learned from the following, his own words. " It is," said he, " 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."...