| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...or clai'sof men. — Therefore the people alone have an inconteltible, mulienable, and indefeafible right, to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the lame, when their protection, fafety, prolperity and happinefs, require it. VIII. In order to prevent... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...Government is instituted for the common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people ; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men. There- The people to infore, the people alone have an incontestible, unaliena- Se^w^"? ble, and indefeasible... | |
| Tyler Parsons - Manchester (Mass.) - 1823 - 110 pages
...conmiim good, for the protection, safety, and prosperity, and happiness of the people ; and not foi the profit, honor, or private interest of any one...family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone bave an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to mstitute government ; and to reform,... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...class of men. Therefore, the people alone i have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible rjght, to institute government; and to reform, alter, or...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness, require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an inchntestihle, unalienahle, and indefeasihle right to institute government, and to reform, alter,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness, require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from hecoming oppressors, the people have... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...prosperity and happiness of the people,". by declaring that " the people alone have an incontestible. unalienable and indefeasible right to institute Government,...and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and lartber, that " All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth,... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...people," by declaring that " tlie people ulone have an incontestable, unuiiemihle and indefensible right to institute Government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and farther, that " All elections ought to be free : and all the inhabitants of thin Commonwealth,... | |
| William Sullivan - Books and reading - 1831 - 218 pages
...Government is instituted for tho common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; — and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man.' Mass. Bill of 3 B. Emerson. New Edition, with Amendments and Additions. )! In conformity to tho act... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...VII.—GOVERNMENT is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private...or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...GOVERNMENT is instituted for the common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people ; and not for the profit, honor, or private...class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and to reform, alter,... | |
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