 | Brad Newsham - 2011 - 376 pages
...same people. Maybe they shot at me. Now we are here drinking." How Much Maize Can Twelve Children Eat? This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismemher or overthrow it. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN, First Inaugural Address (1861) Perhaps like most people... | |
 | Elliott Abrams - 2002 - 156 pages
...Although "physically speaking" division of the nation was impossible, he nevertheless acknowledged: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it." 3° To complete his defense of the Union, Lincoln considered the constitutionality of secession from... | |
 | Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 628 pages
...British decision-takers found that it must return to the old question of Ireland. 1 Bicycling to Busby This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861 THERE WERE a number of sparks blowing about... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...consent." — "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. When ever they shall grow weary of the existing government,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." — "That the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 2002 - 1046 pages
...doctrine on this subject was stated in classic terms by Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugural address: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever diey shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...its fall." — Rousseau "No man is good enough to govern another without the other's consent." — "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. When ever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left — This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the... | |
 | Thomas N. Ingram, Raymond W. LaForge, Ramon A. Avila, Charles H. Schwepker, Jr., Michael R. Williams - 2003 - 468 pages
...will be further explored in the next two chapters. 3 THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln, inaugural address, 1861 What is valued by family and friends, by the society and... | |
 | Marcus D. Pohlmann - 2003 - 464 pages
...people, is destroyed, the end result stems from certain historical factors of social relativity. ". . . This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. ... If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional... | |
 | J. C. N. Raadschelders - 2003 - 468 pages
...further explored in the next two chapters. 3 THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT 7/»5 country, with its institutions, belongs to the people...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln, inaugural address, 1861 What is valued by family and friends, by the society and... | |
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 
