| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...trraty-jixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...right confined to cases in which the whole people of in existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize,... | |
| Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 366 pages
...treaty but by revolution. Lincoln then proceeded to argue that: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."6 For Lincoln, the right of revolution was a natural right that apparently had no limitations.... | |
| Douglas Ambrose, Robert W. T. Martin - History - 2006 - 311 pages
...oppose with force and violence any intrusions upon one's own land: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."3 But Hamilton and Lincoln, after having declared that people have a right to "shake off' an... | |
| Harold Levi, George Corell - History - 2006 - 390 pages
...Appendix to Congressional Globe, page 94, 30th Congress. "Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having power, have the right to rise up and shake off the...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right— a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is the right confined... | |
| Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...destiny: Any people anywhere have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,...which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Later, when such rising-up and shaking-off threatened his own Hamiltonian agenda, his thinking would... | |
| Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...addressed the House of Representatives on the subject, proclaiming: Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much territory as... | |
| William Marvel - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - 2006 - 434 pages
...legitimacy of the Mexican and Texas revolutions, contending that "any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form one that suits them better."33 Now had come a new emergency — and, perhaps, a new perspective on... | |
| Gary Lee Roper - Self-Help - 2008 - 350 pages
...12, 1848, Lincoln made a speech in Congress, in which he said: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such 145 the territory as they inhabit" (66). Very few people... | |
| Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...Representatives: The War with Mexico Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have bright to rise up, and shake off the existing government,...which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. . . . As to the country now in question, we bought it of France in 1803, and sold it to Spain in 1819,... | |
| Carolyn Ackerly Bonstelle, Geordie Buxton - History - 2008 - 132 pages
...War," one need not question the war to which they are referring. "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
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