 | John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But...the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...constitutions of government." He then warned that "the constitution which at anytime exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole...the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."86 Here, Washington highlighted a fear... | |
 | Veterans - 1996 - 213 pages
...to this age and generation: "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of Government; but...the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. Towards the preservation of your Government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is... | |
 | Philip Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...present Constitution. Thus the President closes up the revolutionary alternative in his idea of a nation: "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."7' The belated president has little difficulty... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...or ability to compel obedience as much as its basis in just principles of government. Indeed, it was the "very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government," Washington wrote, that "presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government."50... | |
 | United States - Law - 1996 - 256 pages
...political systems is the right of the people to make and alter (heir constitutions of government; but thai the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and auUicntic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." SEC. 2. All free governments are... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 pages
...fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But...the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government. [Text omitted] In all the changes to which... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But...the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government. All obstructions to the execution of the... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - Law - 1998 - 296 pages
...quo of wealth and power: The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution...the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. 28 Together, the radical and conservative... | |
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government ; but the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory... 
