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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... vote under the charter gov- ernment . He also showed that there was no existing provision in the then existing frame of government in Rhode Island for calling a Convention to make a constitution , or for amend- ing the frame of ...
... vote under the charter gov- ernment . He also showed that there was no existing provision in the then existing frame of government in Rhode Island for calling a Convention to make a constitution , or for amend- ing the frame of ...
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... votes of a majority of the male adult people and of the legal voters of the whole State , but without any statute law authorizing the meetings and prescribing the mode of voting . The defendants ' counsel will contend that this last ...
... votes of a majority of the male adult people and of the legal voters of the whole State , but without any statute law authorizing the meetings and prescribing the mode of voting . The defendants ' counsel will contend that this last ...
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... votes for general officers in town meeting , and those votes , called proxies , were sent to the Assembly to be counted . This is the origin of the term prox being used in Rhode Island to designate the ticket which contains the names of ...
... votes for general officers in town meeting , and those votes , called proxies , were sent to the Assembly to be counted . This is the origin of the term prox being used in Rhode Island to designate the ticket which contains the names of ...
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... voted for the Declaration of Indepen- dence . July 18th , 1776 , the General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Independence . [ Page 39 of Leg . Doc . ] The Legal Effect of the Declaration of Independence upon Government . This comes ...
... voted for the Declaration of Indepen- dence . July 18th , 1776 , the General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Independence . [ Page 39 of Leg . Doc . ] The Legal Effect of the Declaration of Independence upon Government . This comes ...
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... voting people , terrified the usurpers , and they dismissed the Judges from their bar . The English language has rarely been made to express higher eloquence than is found in the full report by himself of the argument of General Varnum ...
... voting people , terrified the usurpers , and they dismissed the Judges from their bar . The English language has rarely been made to express higher eloquence than is found in the full report by himself of the argument of General Varnum ...
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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.