...was a direct violation of the constitution; for the charter requires that laws shall be made by the approbation of the freemen " or the greater part of them, or of their delegates." The meaning of the charter is plain; but private interest and faction are wonderful expositors of written...

...most extensive kind. Under the charter, the legislative power was to be exercised by the proprietary, "by and with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen, or of the delegates or deputies," the right being reserved to him of selecting the mode in which they...

...ordain, make and enact laws of what kind soever, according to their sound discretion, whether relating to the public state of the province, or the private...the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen of the same province, or the greater part of them, or of their delegates or deputies, whom We will...

...be observed that, under the charter, the legislative power was to be exercised by the proprietary, " by and with the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen, or of the delegates or deputies," the right being reserved to him of selecting the mode in which they...

...whatsoever (if consonant to reason and, as far as possible, to the laws and customs of England), but only "by and with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen," or the majority of them, or of their delegates or deputies, who, for enacting such ordinances, were to be...

...whatsoever (if consonant to reason and, as far as possible, to the laws and customs of England), but only " by and with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen," or the majority of them, or of their delegates or deputies, who, for enacting such ordinances, were to be...

...interesting chapter. By the charter of Maryland, the Proprietary was to exercise legislative power by and with the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen or their delegates or deputies. In the Latin original of this document the words liberi homines and liberi...

...proprietor was given full authority to establish the form of government and to make laws with the consent of the freemen, "or the greater part of them or of their delegates or deputies;" in cases of emergency or inability to bring the people or their delegates together Penn was authorized...

...rule " the colonists according to such laws as should seem to them to be necessary, "whether relating to the public state of the province or the private utility of individuals," with the uniform condition that they should be "consonant to reason," and not repugnant but as nearly...

...ordain, make and enact laws of what kind soever, according to their sound discretion, whether relating to the public state of the province, or the private...the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen of the same province, or the greater part of them, or of their delegates or deputies, whom We will...