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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... town meeting in Warren , under the People's Constitution ! [ Mr. BOSWORTH - He was imprisoned but not fined ! ] Mr. HALLETT The learned counsel is mistaken . That act , which I deny ever was law , imposed both penalties without ...
... town meeting in Warren , under the People's Constitution ! [ Mr. BOSWORTH - He was imprisoned but not fined ! ] Mr. HALLETT The learned counsel is mistaken . That act , which I deny ever was law , imposed both penalties without ...
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... towns in Washington County requested the General Assembly to call a Convention , but were refused . In 1786 , a bill , that each town in the State should have two representatives and no more , was sent out to the people by the House of ...
... towns in Washington County requested the General Assembly to call a Convention , but were refused . In 1786 , a bill , that each town in the State should have two representatives and no more , was sent out to the people by the House of ...
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... towns met in Convention , in March , 1834 , and sug- gested the outlines of a constitution , and published an elaborate address . At the June session of that year the Assembly again took up the subject , but with the same error so long ...
... towns met in Convention , in March , 1834 , and sug- gested the outlines of a constitution , and published an elaborate address . At the June session of that year the Assembly again took up the subject , but with the same error so long ...
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... town meetings in August . February 7 - The Rhode Island Suffrage Association adopted a preamble and resolutions in the nature of a protest against the exclusion of all the non - freeholders , being a large ma- jority of the citizens ...
... town meetings in August . February 7 - The Rhode Island Suffrage Association adopted a preamble and resolutions in the nature of a protest against the exclusion of all the non - freeholders , being a large ma- jority of the citizens ...
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... town , was laid over to June . Should the people have stopped here ? All experience had shown the folly , futility , and want of good faith in attempting to frame a constitution on this false basis , and the people quietly proceeded in ...
... town , was laid over to June . Should the people have stopped here ? All experience had shown the folly , futility , and want of good faith in attempting to frame a constitution on this false basis , and the people quietly proceeded in ...
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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.