 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...maxims of true liberty. The basis of our 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, until changed by an explicit and authen tic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - Rhode Island - 1842 - 76 pages
...only the semblance of one." — Chief Justice Durfee's Charge. " The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their...; 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.... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...dfpulation, and^formed of Contiguous porlions of terci- ' clare, that 'the basis of our political systems' is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government; but that the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...maxims of true liberty. The basis of our 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, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...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 by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to mske 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.... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. Tne basis of our political systems, is the right of the people to make and alter their...obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...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...obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey... | |
 | Constitutions - 1843 - 434 pages
...1. In the words of the Father of his Country, we declare, that " the basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government ; but that the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by"n explicit and authentic act of the... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
