 Government are the trustees of the public, and as such accountable for their conduct ; wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may and...  Hearings - Page 46by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1952Full view - About this book
 | 1804 - 372 pages
...such manner as they may think proper. , II. That Government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. III. That a!l men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...government ought to be instituted for the, common benefit, protection, and security of the people , and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. iv. That no man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate... | |
 | Robert James Turnbull - 1827 - 180 pages
...fine passage in the Constitutions of New-Hampshire, and other States; "The doctrine of Nan Resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd,...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." To the third, I offer a sincere request, that they would look a little more towards home. South-Carolina... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1890 - 928 pages
...liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. *' That the right, in the people, to participate in the Legislature, is the best security of liberty,... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 pages
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new Government. Ihe doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. "That the right, in the people, to participate in the Legislature, is the best security of liberty,... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 pages
...such manner as they may think proper. SEC. 2. That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. SEC. 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 pages
...government ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people ; and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind. 1^, That no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive or separate... | |
 | Maryland. Convention - 1836 - 404 pages
...liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. every man having property in, a common interest with, and an attachment to, the community, ought to... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...government ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, and that the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive to the good and happiness of mankind." 2 " 9. That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." THE CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. — "A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good... | |
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