 That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.  The Congressional Globe - Page 1723by United States. Congress - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Royall Bascom Smithey - Virginia - 1904 - 236 pages
...means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. SEC. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. SEC. 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted... | |
 | Adolf Menzel - 1907 - 34 pages
...de suspendre les loix , ou d'en arrêter l'exécution, on même de les annuler, Virginia, Art. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all time amenable to them. Massachusetts, Art. IX. All elections ought to be free;... | |
 | Silvanus Jackson Quinn - Associations, institutions, etc - 1908 - 442 pages
...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1346 pages
...means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Section 2. That all power is vested in, .and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them. Section 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.1 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable2 to them. 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for... | |
 | Peter Charles Hoffer - Political Science - 1990 - 324 pages
...HL George Mason's draft for the Virginia Constitution insisted that "all Power is by God and nature, vested in, and consequently derived from, the People; that Magistrates are their Trustees and Servants, and at all times amenable to them." 1 "' The drafters of Pennsylvania's constitution used... | |
 | Colin Bonwick - History - 1991 - 354 pages
...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. '.]. That government is, or ought to be instituted for... | |
 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for... | |
 | John V. Orth - Reference - 1995 - 220 pages
...deft wielding of an editorial blue pencil on the second section of the Virginia Declaration of Rights: "That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them."38 Similarly, the section on separation of powers is almost... | |
 | Christoph Auffarth - Athens (Greece) - 1995 - 746 pages
...es wert sei, ein politisches Amt zu bekleiden. 25. Vgl. Virginia Bill of Rights (sect. 2) June 1776: "That all power is vested in and consequently derived...the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants ..." 26. Vgl. Dem. 23 (Arist.), 209: TöTE |iEV yap ö Sfjuoi; r|v SEOrIOTr1q TWV noXiTeuouivwv,... | |
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