| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - 1822 - 148 pages
...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. There- The people to infore, the people alone have an incontestible, unaliena- Se^w^"? ble, and indefeasible... | |
| Tyler Parsons - 1823 - 110 pages
...conmiim good, for the protection, safety, and prosperity, and happiness of the people ; and not foi the profit, honor, or private interest of any one...family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone bave an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to mstitute government ; and to reform,... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...class of men. Therefore, the people alone i have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible rjght, to institute government; and to reform, alter, or...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness, require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| 1828 - 494 pages
...one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an inchntestihle, unalienahle, and indefeasihle right to institute government, and to reform, alter,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness, require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from hecoming oppressors, the people have... | |
| Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1890 - 928 pages
...instituted for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people,". by declaring that " the people alone have an incontestible. unalienable...and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and lartber, that " All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth,... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1832 - 276 pages
...VII.—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...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII.—IN order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...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...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. — IN order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 pages
...exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state " ; and that " they have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." It is, and accordingly has always been, treated as a fundamental law, and not as a mere contract of... | |
| William Sullivan - 1834 - 398 pages
...people ; that government is instituted for their ' protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness,' and ' not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men ; ' in short, that offices of honor, or emolument are not intended to strengthen the hands of party,... | |
| William Sullivan - 1835 - 212 pages
...is instituted for the common good ; for the protection, safety, pros, pority, and happiness of the people ; — and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.1' Mats. Bill of Rights. " Ignorantia Icgum neminem eicusat ; on m. v enim prtosumuiHur eas none,... | |
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