 | John Esten Cooke - 1883 - 562 pages
...happiness and safety." All power, he says, is " vested in and consequently derived from the people;" and "magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them." Government is instituted for the common benefit of all, and when it is found inadequate or hostile,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 pages
...contrary notwithstanding. 4. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at...or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, proiectiot and security of the people, nation or community ; of all the various modes and fora* oi... | |
 | Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, Thomas W. Handford - 1884 - 564 pages
..."Bill of Rights" of 1776, written also by Jefferson, it is declared that — All power is invested in, and consequently derived from, the people, that...trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. All power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 pages
...obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. " Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1885 - 770 pages
...construed, as they must be, in connection with the provisions already quoted and the further declaration that " all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their servants, and at all times amenable to them." Art. I, sec. 4. It is easy to see how, if the construction... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1885 - 778 pages
...Federal government is Federalism with a vengeance ! But what does the Virginia Bill of Eights say? "That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their 1 The argument drawn from the difference of names of the Articles of Confederation and of the new Constitution... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - 1886 - 344 pages
...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. III. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security... | |
 | 1886 - 804 pages
...information for the offense. In this commonwealth the second article of the bill of rights having declared " that all power is vested in, and consequently derived...and servants, and at all times amenable to them," it follows as a necessary consequence that the people have a right to be informed of the conduct and... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886 - 486 pages
...obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. " Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation,... | |
| |
That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 
