unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.' It is, and accordingly has always been, treated as a fundamental law,... American Quarterly Review - Side 333redigert av - 1838Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Georg Jellinek, Georg Meyer, Gerhard Anschütz, Fritz Fleiner - 1910 - 622 sider
...Vertragstheorie erinnere. Er kommt daher schließlich zu dem Resultat, daß die Constitution nicht sei „a mere contract of government during the good pleasure...persons who were originally bound by it or assented to it" 2 ; und „a State Constitution is no further to be deemed a compact than that it is a matter of... | |
| John Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen Laura Sumner, John Bertram Andrews - 1910 - 392 sider
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an incontrovertible, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government,...totally change the same when their protection, safety, property, or happiness require it; and we, therefore, declare our fixed and unalterable purpose to... | |
| Edith M. Phelps - 1911 - 204 sider
...incontestable, inalienable and indefeasiBle right to institute government, and to reform, alter and totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require It." In like manner the Constitution of Rhode Island begins [Article I. Section I]: "1n the words of the... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1912 - 648 sider
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestible unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1912 - 632 sider
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestible unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| National Economic League, Boston - 1912 - 90 sider
...words of this same article (italics again ours) : "Therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it." If our forefathers were wrong in these views, it is incumbent on someone to point out in what respect.... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court - 1912 - 710 sider
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. ART. VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1912 - 618 sider
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestible unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. POLITICAL DOCTRINES OF THE ERA 51 VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1912 - 620 sider
...intcrgst of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestible unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie - 1912 - 724 sider
...themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State," and that "the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." 3 * Yet the right under that constitution to choose representatives to the general assembly is limited... | |
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