 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...every government, leaning upon such a maxim for its support. Least of all can it be predicated of a government, professing to be founded upon an original...government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principles of natural right." 2 Dr. Rush, in a political communication, in 1786, uses the term " sovereignty... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...every government, leaning upon such a maxim for its support. Least of all can it be predicated of a government, professing to be founded upon an original...government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principles of natural right." rica have mistaken the meaning of the word 'sovereignty.' Hence each... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - Legislators - 1858 - 472 pages
...world, are and nave been under perpetual control ; compelled, as Burke expresses it, to truckle and huckster. Unlimited power belongs not to the nature...incompatible with the first principle of natural right." This proposition Mr. Adams proceeds fully to illustrate, and thus to apply : " This political sophism... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 452 pages
...world, are and have been under perpetual control; compelled, as Burke expresses it, to truckle and huckster. Unlimited power belongs not to the nature...incompatible with the first principle of natural right." This proposition Mr. Adams proceeds fully to illustrate, and thus to apply : " This political sophism... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 524 pages
...quote from him. Says John Quincy Adams, in his oration on the Fourth of July, 1831, at Quincy: — absolute, irresistible, despotic power existing in...incompatible with the first principle of natural right The sovereignty which would arrogate to itself absolute, unlimited power must appeal for its sanction... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...government leaning upon such a maxim for its support Least of all can it bo predicated of a gOTtrnment professing to be founded upon an original compact....government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principles of natural right." 1 Ilr. Rush, in a political communication, 1786, uses the term "sovereignty... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - History - 1894 - 950 pages
...can it be predicated of a government professing to be founded upon an original compact. The pretense of an absolute, irresistible, despotic power, existing...government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principles of natural right." Sir, these well-considered reflections, made by one of the wisest and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 406 pages
...man, and rotten will be the foundation of every government leaning upon such a maxim for its support The pretence of an absolute, irresistible, despotic...incompatible with the first principle of natural right The sovereignty which would arrogate to itself absolute, unlimited power must appeal for its sanction... | |
 | Burton Alva Konkle - Orators - 1905 - 562 pages
...can it be predicated of a government professing to be founded upon an original compact. The pretense of an absolute, irresistible, despotic power, existing...government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principles of natural right' "The conclusion of the Chief Justice is, however, met practically and... | |
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Unlimited power belongs not to the nature of man, and rotten will be the foundation of every government leaning upon such a maxim for its support. Least of all can it be predicated of any government professing to be founded upon an original compact. 