 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.  Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 187by Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember...desirous of having the National Constitution amended. ... I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution — which amendment, however, I have not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow itjy I can not be ignorant of the fact, that many worthy and patriotic...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment, I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not he ignorant of the fact, that many worthy and patriotic....Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment, I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact I hat many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they «an exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember...the rightful authority of the people over the whole sub]ect, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrnment itself; and I should,... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...shall grow weary of the existing government. they can exercise their constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment. I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exorcise their tmvitihitumnl right of amending it, or their. revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fart that many worthy and patriotic citizens nro desirous of having the national Constitution amended.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...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. I cannot be ignomnt of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens arc desirous of having the national Constitution... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government they can exercise their сипstitutinnul right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 1 cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment, I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
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