 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
 | United States - 1902 - 354 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 Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 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. ... 1 understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution — which amendment, however, I have not... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 460 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. 1 cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - United States - 1904 - 508 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...having the National Constitution amended. While I make 291 no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...whole people "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." Lincoln's appeal throughout was to the "patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people."... | |
 | Timothy E. Scheurer - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 300 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." Those quotes might strike the listener as alarming—that is if the listener had forgotten the original... | |
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