 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, George A. Glynn - 1894 - 1120 pages
...obtaining happiness and safety. 2. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. Magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 3. Government is instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1895 - 130 pages
...allegiance and obedience are due from every citizen, anything in the constitution, ordinances, or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. That...are their trustees and servants, and at all times amedable to them. 5. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection,... | |
 | 1896 - 608 pages
...and niauy of anti-slavery sentiment.2 The advocates of the white basis argued from the Bill of Rights that " all power is vested in and consequently derived from the people," which would be true in regard to the white basis only, as the mixed basis would recognize wealth as... | |
 | Wilhelm Altmann - 1897 - 588 pages
...means of acquiring and possessing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Sect. 2. That all power is vested in and consequently derived...trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them. Sect 3. That government is or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 548 pages
...them; all power is vested in the people, and is derived from them. Consequently, their representatives are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. As government is instituted for the common benefit, it must be organized in the form that is best "capable... | |
 | 1899 - 380 pages
...©efdjidjte ber ©taotëtfteorien. § 62. expressément " , une ber 2$irginta=Sonftttuttoit (9lrt. II) : That all power is vested in and consequently derived...magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all time amenable to them eine 9?ad)bilbung be§ Sode'fdjen <3a^e» : remains in the People a supreme power... | |
 | 1899 - 1044 pages
...appointment." Section 2, art 3, declares: "All power is vested in and consequently derived from the people. Magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them." The people, in their collective capacity, are sovereign. To them all so-called "prerogative rights"... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - 1900 - 264 pages
...degree." — Force's Archives, IV, 4 — 834. Compare the Virgina Bill of Rights, 1 776, Sec. 2 : " That all power is vested in and consequently derived...trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them; " also Sec. I, 3, Maryland, 1776, Art. I. IV. of Decl. of Rights where the doctrine of non-resistance... | |
 | James Madison - 1900 - 630 pages
...liberty, with the means of acquirTHE WRITINGS OF erty, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived...trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 3. That Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security,... | |
 | The Brotherhood of Liberty, Newport, Rhode Island - 1900 - 352 pages
...means of acquiring and possessing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; second, that all power is vested in and consequently derived...trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them; and third, that the end and object of government should be the common benefit, protection, and security... | |
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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. 
