...would, of itself, bring good results. "Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad;...cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it." The First Frame provided that a governor and...

...motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them are ruined too: wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government can't be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good;...

...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...bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. WILLIAM PENN, in his Preface to the First Frame of Government...

...much for her work as she has done for mine. Introduction Let Men be good, and the Government can't be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it: but if Men...bad, let the Government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their Turn. I know some say, Let us have good Laws, and no matter...

...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...men be good, and the government cannot be bad.... That, therefore, which makes a good constitution must keep it, — namely men of wisdom and virtue,...

...ParJoia. 4) U.SI-W. 2I4J (Oct IS, 1974). Vol 1»74:I02JJ IMPEACHMENT 1103 than men upon governments. Lei men be good, and the government cannot be bad. if...will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. William Peon'" The impeachment process cannot properly be evaluated apart from its constitutional matrix....

...governments will be corrupt, reflecting the corruption of the individual. In 1682, William Penn wrote: 'Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad;...good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.'This is why the apostle Paul puts such an emphasis on the 'fruit of the Spirit,' especially self-control...

...In the 1682 "Preface to the First Frame of Government for Pennsylvania" the Quaker colonist wrote, "Let men be good and the government cannot be bad:...will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn." Penn thought monarchy, aristocracy and democracy (rule by one, few, or many) each can work, so long...

...tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. . . . Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them. . . . [Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon...governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad."6 Penn's frame was forward thinking, combining his political theories with a progressive political...