 A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government.  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 187by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...conflitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a conftitution, The conftitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people conftituting a government. It is the body of elements, to which you can refer, -and quote... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 232 pages
...conftitution is a thing antecedent *' to government ; and that the conftitution of a " country is not the aft of its government, but of " a people conftituting...** of what it ought to be, and what it is faid to bŁ et iri England. That the right of war and peace " refides in a metaphor fhewn at the Tower, for... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - Trials (Treason) - 1795 - 452 pages
...conftitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a conftitution. The conftitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people conftituting a govemment. It is the body of elements, to which you can refer, shd quote... | |
 | John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...antecedent to a government ; and a government is only the creature of a constitution. A constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of elements to which you can refer, and quote... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 392 pages
...yet tq *' form; that fince William the Conqueror, tho *' country has never yet regenerated jtfelf, and is " therefore without a conftitution. That where...conftituting a government. That every *' thing in the Englifli government is the reverfe of *' what it ought to be, and what it is faid to be in *' England.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...there is none. That a constitution is a thing antecedent to government ; and that the constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of a people constituting a government. That every thing in the English government is the reverse of what it ought... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 482 pages
...antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of elev ments, to which you can refer, and quote... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of ele1 ments, to which you can refer, and quote... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of elements, to which you can refer, and quote... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...there is none. That a constitution is a thing antecedent to government ; and that the constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of a people constituting a government. That every thing in the English government is the reverse of what it ought... | |
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