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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. "
Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham ... - Page 170
by Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 808 pages
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The Words of Abraham Lincoln

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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The Militia Movement in the United States: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information - Political Science - 1997 - 152 pages
...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,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly...
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Communism in America: A History in Documents

Albert Fried - History - 1997 - 460 pages
...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,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." These words of Lincoln are but a paraphrasing of the Declaration of Independence. Our national holiday,...
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From the Ashes: America Reborn

William W. Johnstone - Fiction - 1998 - 340 pages
...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,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln This One K9Y7-NCN-6Z2Z * Contents * Author's Note: About the Book 9 Part One: The...
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Women in Public Administration of the American States: A Study of Their ...

Sharada Rath - Political Science - 1998 - 172 pages
...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,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." With these words, Abraham Lincoln understood the most fundamental concept of American government—...
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Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence

Daniel T. Rodgers - History - 1998 - 294 pages
...people" (the whole people, not a mere faction) "shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,...their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."40 Well into the war he continued to think that yet another piece of constitutional tinkering would...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutlonal rive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not back 6342 I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...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...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the...
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Storm Over the Constitution

Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...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,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. (emphasis original) "The Whole Theory of Democracy": Antonin Scalia, Meet James Madison and Friends...
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Reconstructing the Republic

Indian Association of Social Science Institutions - Political Science - 1999 - 442 pages
...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 overthow it." India is passing through a phase of structural changes, prodded by internal and external...
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