An Address, Delivered at Chester
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Excerpt from An Address, Delivered at Chester: Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; On the 8th of November, 1851 Gentlemen of the Historical Society: In the month of October, 1681, within the walls of an ancient mansion in Old England, might have been seen two persons in earnest conference. The one, although some twenty years the senior of the other, felt evidently not the less respect for the well-tempered enthusiasm, the hopeful spirit, and admirably balanced judgment of his companion. Republicans from principle, the sufferings they had undergone had made them republicans from choice. Algernon Sidney had come down from Penshurst to confer with William Penn, at Worminghurst, and frame the constitu- of a great State. A constitution, which through all time was to become the argument unanswerable, for the Divine right of the people, all over the world. Hear some of the results of their deliberations: - "Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, and confusion... Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad: if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. Some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or invaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones... About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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