 Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable...  Annual Report - Page 2361898Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853 - 814 pages
...round their necks. Our Bill of Rights says that " the people alone have an incontestible, inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally to change the same." Now, Sir, that is a fundamental right which overrides all limitations upon the... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...round their necks. Our Bill of Rights says that " the people alone have an incontestsble, inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally to change the same." Now, Sir, that is a fundamental right which overrides all limitations upon the... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...of any one man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government,...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1854 - 322 pages
...honestly administered, and efficiently executed. The Constitution of 1780, recognizing the people's " right to institute government, and to reform, alter,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it," made it obligatory on the Legislature of fifteen years later, to submit to the people the question... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...of any one man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1857 - 518 pages
...any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, uualienable, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. night or people VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with itn"offl"ecrctahon authority,... | |
 | JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men ; Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1860 - 1158 pages
...anyone man, family or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, nnalienable, < ZV YlIL In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from Right or people becoming oppressors,... | |
 | James Williams - 1862 - 538 pages
...by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled. Sec. 7. ... The people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. Part n. Frame of Government. — The people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 448 pages
...ih'an^tt. a°d any one man, family or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government;...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with ™eht of p^.p'« . i , to secure rotation th"'q£nflauon«... | |
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