...he had written, "For the matter of liberty and privilege I propose that which is extraordinary — to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief,...man may not hinder the good of an whole country." How carefully the founder of this commonwealth provided in the "Great Law" for the freedom thus proposed...

...declared his intention to leave the settlers free to make their own laws. " I propose," he said, " to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of no one man may hinder the good of a whole country." " God," he declared, " has furnished me with a...

...meant was shown by his words in one of his early letters respecting the province : " I propose . . . to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief,...will of one man may not hinder the good of an whole country."3 In examining the Frame of Government, and particularly Penn's charter, it must be remembered...

...privilege,' he says in one of his letters, N ' I propose that which is extraordinary, and leave myself and my successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country.' These are noble words, and Penn deserves to. have the full credit of them. They were...

...for matters of liberty and privilege he proposed that which was extraordinary, and to leave himself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country," was taken advantage of in a very literal sense. For the first draft of a constitution...

...his Quaker heart. "I purpose for the matters of liberty, I purpose that which is extraordinary — to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief...that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country. It is the great end of government to support power in reverence with the people, and...

...magnanimity of the intention, " for the matters of liberty, I purpose that which is extraordinary — to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief,...that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country;" and added, in language which might have fallen from his intimate friend, Algernon...

...espousal of democratic ideals. Penn insisted that the people must rule and wished "to leave to himself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country. ' ' Considerable space is devoted to the dissensions between the settlers and the...

...magnanimity of the intention, " for the matters of liberty, I purpose that which is extraordinary — to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief, that the will of orie man may not hinder the good of a whole country;" and added, in language which might have fallen...

...own expressed ideas, a corollary of the principles he had so frequently and so forcibly enumerated. " For the matters of liberty and privilege I propose...leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief ; so that the will of one man may not hinder the good of the whole country," he wrote. in 1681, and...