 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...government; but the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...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....plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberations and action of the constituted authorities, are... | |
 | Robert S. Levine, Robert Steven Levine - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 328 pages
...reasserted an apocalyptic warning from the Farewell Address of "the Illustrious Washington": " 'That all combinations and associations, under whatever...plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...government. But the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all....plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...warned that "the constitution which at anytime exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all....the duty of every individual to obey the established government."86 Here, Washington highlighted a fear that by the end of the 18th century many among the... | |
 | The Editors of Rea - 1995 - 734 pages
...create a new nation of which he would be ruler. Questions 18 and 19 refer to the following passage. All combinations and associations, under whatever...plausible character, with the real design to direct... the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They... | |
 | 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...the duty of every individual to obey the established government."7' The belated president has little difficulty translating Washington's criticism of factions.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all....with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distinctive of this fundamental... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 pages
...Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all....every Individual to obey the established Government. [Text omitted] In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at... | |
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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... 
