 | John Hancock - 1865 - 52 páginas
...sentiments of its citizens during the period of 1776, the Elective Franchise clause reads as follows :— "That the right in the people to participate in the Legislature is the foundation of liberty and of all free governments; and for this end all elections ought to be free... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - 1866 - 492 páginas
...happiness require it, the people have the right to reform the old or establish a-new government. 11. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. 12. The basis of our political system being the right of the people to make and alter their constitution... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 594 páginas
...Constitution of 1834, contained immediately after the clause in question the following declaration: — " The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." § 245. It remains now to notice the third and last kind of documents referred to, namely, Constitutions... | |
 | New York (State) - 1867 - 254 páginas
...ineffectual, the people may and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. Md., 254. — That the people of this State have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating... | |
 | Maryland - 1868 - 170 páginas
...ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new Government : the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. ART. 7. That the right of the people to par- Right ot sutticipate in the Legislature is the best security... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1870 - 480 páginas
...manner as they may think proper. Sec. 2. That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. Sec. 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - 1870 - 1074 páginas
...ineffectual, the people may and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. Also, the following; which was referred to the committee on Schedule: Rfsolted, That the committee... | |
 | Tennessee - 1870 - 468 páginas
...right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper. 412 the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. SEC. 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 582 páginas
...Constitution of 1834, contained immediately after the clause in question the following declaration: — " The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind" § 245. It remains now to notice the third and last kind of documents referred to, namely, Constitutions... | |
 | 1874 - 844 páginas
...familiar language of some of our State constitutions, the doctrine of non-resistance of arbitrary power is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. And upon universal principles of natural right, applicable alike to individuals and to States, it is... | |
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Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new Government, the doctrine of nonresistance... 
