 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...of the Farewell Address of the Father of his Country, ought to be erased such a heresy as this, that "the basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitution of government." 2. The constitution proposed to the people by a publicly and freely elected... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. Tha 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, until changed... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...and to alter their constitutions of 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. The very idea of the power and the light of the people to establish government,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...and to alter their constitutions of 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. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government,... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...judicial and executive proceedings. § 1. In the words of the Father of his Country, we declare, that " the basis of our political systems is the right of...constitution which at any time exists, till changed by"n explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory' upon all." § 2. All free... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. Tne basis of our political systems, is the right of the...and alter their Constitutions of Government — But the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. 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... | |
 | William Giles Goddard - Constitutional history - 1843 - 88 pages
...the several States ; but we have repeatedly and unequivocally affirmed them . Never ha ve we denied the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government — a right which " constitutes the basis of our political systems." We have, however, contended that,... | |
 | Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 366 pages
...resuming and securing our natural and "free inheritance." Washington, in his Farewell Address, says, " The basis of our political systems is the right of...make and alter their constitutions of government." Did Washington mean such people as are made at our Town-Meeting-Manufactories of men ? Did he not rather... | |
 | Universalism - 1862 - 462 pages
...political system 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...explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government,... | |
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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... 
