 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 786 pages
...warranted in giving 11 The jury should he told by the court that they are the sole judges of the facts, and that it is not only their right but their duty to find according to their own views of the proofs before them, regardless of any opinion the court may... | |
 | California - 1850 - 912 pages
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 | Henry Dickson Capers - Blue Ridge Railroad - 1893 - 630 pages
...asserted by the Colonies—namely, the right of a people to govern itself, and the right to abolish a government which becomes destructive of the ends for which it was instituted. And concurrent with the establishment of these pnn--' ciples was the fact that each Colony... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris - American literature - 1910 - 492 pages
...; embalmed in his storied memory, is that other immortal, newborn, American principle — that all governments were made for the benefit of the governed;...but their duty to subvert a government which becomes destmctive of the end for which it was formed, and to frame a new government to preserve their rights.... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 490 pages
...brass; embalmed in his storied memory, is that other immortal, newborn, American principle—that all governments were made for the benefit of the governed;...the people, and that it is not only their right, but !rr'> duty to subvert a government which becomes destructive of the end for which it was formed, and... | |
 | 1924 - 512 pages
...brass, embalmed in his storied memory, is that other immortal new-born American principle — that all governments were made for the benefit of the governed;...subvert a government which becomes destructive of the end for which it was framed, and to form a new government to preserve their rights. Washington commenced... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to subject the colonies to absolute despotism; and that it is not only their right but their duty to throw off such a government. At this point, it will be recalled, the Declaration says: "Such has been... | |
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In vain was that glorious life lived if he lived but to impress upon mankind no higher thought. Embodied in yonder monumental brass, embalmed in his storied memory, is that other immortal new-born American principle — that all governments were made... 