 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...independent of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. 15. That no free government, or the blessing of liberty,...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 1 6. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 294 pages
...government. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 stated that "no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Four years later the new Massachusetts Bill of Rights... | |
 | Wayne D. Moore - Law - 1998 - 312 pages
...did not include the state charter's additional declaration that "no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."46 But the draft had a similar thrust. Edmund Randolph would later characterize Virginia's... | |
 | Ellis Katz, George Alan Tarr - Business & Economics - 1996 - 222 pages
...Mason's declaration also carried the language of aspiration: "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."11 A centralized government does not necessarily make... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - Law - 2000 - 3301 pages
...That the people have a right to uniform government; and, that no free government, or the blessings of liberty, 'can be preserved to any people but by...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue ; and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principlesf. This is the principle of democracy. By the establishment... | |
 | Charles Haynes, Oliver Thomas - 1997 - 187 pages
...ideal of E Pluríbus Unum, one nation of many peoples and faiths. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. — George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776... | |
 | Uwe Volkmann - Law - 1998 - 468 pages
...alsbald ihren Niederschlag finden. Wenn es dort heißt „that no free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles"203, so knüpft das sowohl in der Wortwahl als auch... | |
 | Andy Williams - Political Science - 1998 - 230 pages
...erected or established within the limits thereof. Section 15 That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Section 16 That religion, or the duty which we owe to... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...15"1 article of the Virginia Bill of Rights, they wrote: "that no free government, or the blessings of Liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." At least on that day, those five "signers" were not... | |
 | Allan Greenberg - Architecture - 1999 - 196 pages
...eloquently expressed by the Virginia Declaration of Rights. that "no free government. nor the blessings of liberty. can be preserved to any people. but by a firm adherence to justice ... [and] by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles/' ' The subsequent design of the federal... | |
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That no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 
