| Abraham Oakey Hall - Abolitionists - 1862 - 48 pages
...view of this matter to tell us frankly whether they do or do not assent to Mr. Jefferson's statement in the Declaration of Independence that governments 'derive their just powers from the consent of the governed ; and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these... | |
| Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...said: "We have repeatedly said, andweonco more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just; and that, if the slave states, the cotton states, or... | |
| English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...will make in their constitution will be to repudiate formally the now exploded doctrine laid down 1 in the Declaration of Independence, that ' Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' Tho point of view from which the Southerners undertook the war cannot... | |
| English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...thev will make in their constitution will be to repudiate formally the now exploded doctrine laid down in the Declaration of Independence, that ' Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' The point of view from which the Southerners undertook the war cannot... | |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox - History - 1865 - 486 pages
...1861: "We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just ; and that, if the slave States, the cotton States,... | |
| 1866 - 394 pages
...United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." This is in accordance with the sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"—a sentiment which, though true as it regards the medium, is most untrue... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1867 - 868 pages
...all free government — the principle that the will of the people is the supreme law, or as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, that " governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," and in our own Bill of Rights, that " all power is vested in and consequently... | |
| Mark Hopkins - Christian ethics - 1871 - 450 pages
...entering into society, the individual comes under no new obligation, and gives up no right. It is said in the Declaration of Independence, that " Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." If, as most have supposed, this refers to the foundation of government,... | |
| Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...: "We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just, and that if the slave States, the cotton States, or... | |
| Giuseppe Mazzini - Italy - 1872 - 414 pages
...Constitutions is strongly demanded, to the removal of every barrier, in accordance with that pregnant postulate in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. In two of the Territories the polls are opened to both sexes. In Great... | |
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