A Sketch of Recent Events: Being a Short Account of the Events which Culminated on June 30, 1887, Together with a Full Report of the Great Reform Meeting, and the Two Constitutions in Parallel Columns

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Hawaiian gazette print, 1887 - Hawaii - 37 pages
 

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Page 24 - ... no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people.
Page 36 - All the laws, which have heretofore been adopted, used and approved in the province, colony or state of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law, shall still remain and be in full force until altered or repealed by the legislature ; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and liberties contained in this constitution.
Page 34 - State, against whom the Legislature may be about to proceed, shall receive notice thereof, accompanied with a copy of the causes alleged for his removal, at least ten days before the day on which either house of the General Assembly shall act thereupon.
Page 24 - 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.
Page 32 - ... their offices ; but previous to the trial of every impeachment, the members of the senate shall respectively be sworn truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
Page 24 - No elector shall be so obliged to perform military duty on the day of election, as to prevent his voting, except in time of war or public danger.
Page 34 - The judge against whom the general assembly may be about to proceed, shall receive notice thereof, accompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his removal, at least twenty days before the day on which either house of the general assembly shall act thereupon.
Page 36 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed In either House of the Legislature, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas...
Page 24 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.
Page 36 - Legislature next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by two-thirds of all the members elected to each House...

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