In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life;... Political Science Quarterly - Page 141887Full view - About this book
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...navy, and except the militia in actual service), but by the authority of the Legislature. Sec. 19. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority...by certain and regular elections and appointments. Sec. 20. That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient securities, unless for capital offenses,... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 700 pages
...totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority,...officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant>places by certain and regular elections and appointments. IX. All elections ought to be free... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 578 pages
...totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it ART. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority,...public officers to return to private life; and to fill tip vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments. ART. 9. All elections ought to... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority...periods and in such manner as they shall establish by the frame of Government, to cause their public officers to return to private life, and to fill up vacant... | |
| Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority...periods and in such manner as they shall establish by the frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life, and to fill up vacant... | |
| Wendell Phillips - Fugitive slaves - 1855 - 44 pages
...Let them go elsewhere than -to this tribunal, if they say it is a bad power. , The people retain the right, at such periods, and in such manner as they...cause their public officers to return to private life. That is the principle of our Declaration of Rights. Mr. Childs says, — "The founders of the Constitution... | |
| Richard Henry Dana - History - 1855 - 28 pages
...Bill of Rights (Art. V.) that all magistrates are accountable to the people, and (Art. VIII.) that the people have a right "at such periods and in such...shall establish by their frame of government, to cause all officers to return to private life," they did, in their frame of government, declare that the judges... | |
| Massachusetts - Law - 1856 - 430 pages
...prevent those, who arc vested with wcure rotation in .,.,»« . r , , , . . , office. authority, Irom becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such...by certain and regular elections and appointments. AH. baring the IX. All elections ought to be free ; and all the inhabi™quai tants of this Commonwealth,... | |
| Boston (Mass.). City Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1856 - 914 pages
...of rotation in office in our State, that it is set forth particularly in the Bill of Rights, " that in order to prevent those who are vested with authority...from becoming oppressors, the people have a right to cause their public officers to return to private life." And it would seem to be injudicious to infringe... | |
| JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority,...by certain and regular elections and appointments. IX. All elections ought to be free ; and all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth, having such qualifications... | |
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