 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...PECK FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS THIS country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 pages
...intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 pages
...intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government they can exercise I their constitutional right of amending it, or their rev1 olwtionary right to dismember or overthrow... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow wearj' of the existing Government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 pages
...or equal hope in the world? "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." "Direct legislation" is, in the fullest sense, "a. government of, by, and for the people." It extends... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...Inaugural— Raymond, p. 168.) This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it. 79 80 (June 13, 1863, Letter to Corning—... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...intercourse are again upon yon. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. i cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 862 pages
...amendment were not disappointed. Near the close of his inaugural, Mr. Lincoln referred to the amendment. "I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 718 pages
...amendment were not disappointed. Near the close of his inaugural, Mr. Lincoln referred to the amendment. "I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 
