The Right of the People to Establish Forms of Government: Mr. Hallett's Argument in the Rhode Island Causes, Before the Supreme Court of the United States, January 1848 ...Beals & Greene, 1848 - 71 страница |
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... limit it . " The Declaration of Independence made a Colony a State in an instant , " says Mr. Dane , " A State changes its form of government when it in his Abridgment , vol . 9 , app . 19 . changes its source of power and absolves its ...
... limit it . " The Declaration of Independence made a Colony a State in an instant , " says Mr. Dane , " A State changes its form of government when it in his Abridgment , vol . 9 , app . 19 . changes its source of power and absolves its ...
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... limit the grant to a minority or to any class of men they might select ; and if suffrage were confined to a minority , no matter how small , compared to the great body of the people , the minority might forever hold the power at their ...
... limit the grant to a minority or to any class of men they might select ; and if suffrage were confined to a minority , no matter how small , compared to the great body of the people , the minority might forever hold the power at their ...
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... limit is that it shall be done by a majority . Not by first attacking the existing govern ment or overturning the laws , and then making a constitution , as in the revolution of 576 , but by first adopting peaceably a new organic law ...
... limit is that it shall be done by a majority . Not by first attacking the existing govern ment or overturning the laws , and then making a constitution , as in the revolution of 576 , but by first adopting peaceably a new organic law ...
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... limit- ed , or restricted this right , as it originally was declared to exist , " inherent and unalienable " in the people ? In short , is the sovereignty in the people , and how may they exercise it ? It may safely be assumed that no ...
... limit- ed , or restricted this right , as it originally was declared to exist , " inherent and unalienable " in the people ? In short , is the sovereignty in the people , and how may they exercise it ? It may safely be assumed that no ...
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... limit themselves , as well as their governments , by their constitutions . Doubtless they do so , through representation , as to the making and enforcing of statute law , which they leave to the subsisting organization . And so they ...
... limit themselves , as well as their governments , by their constitutions . Doubtless they do so , through representation , as to the making and enforcing of statute law , which they leave to the subsisting organization . And so they ...
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Страница 57 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Страница 37 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Страница 39 - That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion ; nor can it nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority from which they proceed is supreme, and can seldom act, they are designed...
Страница 39 - The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles supposed to have been long and well established to decide it.
Страница 15 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Страница 62 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Страница 35 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Страница 33 - For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority...
Страница 17 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Страница 61 - It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.