Quote#Politics & Power
Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame)…
Quote byWilliam Penn · 1644–1718
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Frame of Government (1682).
English (original)
Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
— William Penn
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