 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 of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new Government : the doctrine of...  Niles' Weekly Register - Page 118by WM. OGDEN NILES - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Constitutions - 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...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 - State rights - 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 - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new Government. The 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,... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 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 - Constitutional amendments - 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 - Virginia - 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...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... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 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...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,... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." THE CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. — "A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." Well may the learned author of the Primacy exclaim : " There is a strong affinity between republicanism... | |
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