| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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 constitution...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... | |
| Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. . . . But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till...the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all." "Farewell Address (19 September 1796)," George Washington: A Collection, 518. 23. "Inaugural Address... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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 constitution...at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authenticact of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the... | |
| David E. Kyvig - Political Science - 2000 - 276 pages
...Washington spoke for the founding generation as well as himself when he said that the Constitution till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. . . . This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full... | |
| William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...that might upset the status quo of wealth and power: The basis of our political systems is the п§Ы of the people to make and alter their constitutions...obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duh of every individual to obey the... | |
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