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" That government is or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness... "
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive ... - Page 7
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1868
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Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1863

Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 336 pages
...the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community ; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which...against the danger of maladministration ; and that, when a government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath...
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The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser

United States - 1886 - 190 pages
...the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation, or community. Of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which...against the danger of mal-administration, and that whenever any government shall be found inadequate, or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the...
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History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the ..., Volume 4

George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation, or community ; and, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary...purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such a manner as shall be judged...
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A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes ...

John Alexander Jameson - Constitutional conventions - 1887 - 730 pages
...the common benefit, protection, and security of .the people, nation, or community. Of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which...indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal." Now, the authors of this declaration...
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Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action

John Friedmann - Political Science - 1987 - 518 pages
...the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which...greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectively secured against the danger of maladministration; and that when any government is found...
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Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the Supreme ..., Part 3

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1312 pages
...the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which...indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. Section 4. That no man, or set...
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Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted

Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community, of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which...secured against the danger of mal-administration; Reprinted from John P. Kaminski and Gaspare J. Saladino, eds. The Documentary History of the Ratification...
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The American Revolution

Colin Bonwick - History - 1991 - 354 pages
...the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which...purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged...
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The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American ...

Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...seminal Revolutionary document, the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights. In it, Virginia held that "a majority of the community hath an indubitable,...and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish" the government, "in such a manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal."85 And as usual,...
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The American Founding Experience: Political Community and Republican Government

Charles S. Hyneman - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...character and designate the purposes of governments designed for the rule of free men. Section 3 states that "when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes [and fundamental characteristics], a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable and...
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