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" 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,... "
Bay State Monthly - Page 390
1909
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The Constitutions of the United States: According to the Latest Amendments ...

1804 - 372 pages
...or clai'sof men. — Therefore the people alone have an inconteltible, mulienable, and indefeafible right, to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the lame, when their protection, fafety, prolperity and happinefs, require it. VIII. In order to prevent...
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Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Massachusetts - 1819 - 838 pages
...power. The indefeasible right of the people, " to institute government," and " to reform, alter, and change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it," is distinctly asserted in the bill of rights. But the constitution contains no provision for a revision,...
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Official Papers, Printed for the Common Council of the City of Boston ...

Boston (Mass.). Common Council - 1822 - 148 pages
...of men. There- The people to infore, the people alone have an incontestible, unaliena- Se^w^"? ble, and indefeasible right, to institute government ;...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. ARTICLE vm. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the...
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The Constitution of the State, Adopted 1780

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...
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The American's Guide: Comprising the Declaration of Independence : the ...

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...
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Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of ..., Pages 94-830

Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1890 - 928 pages
...prosperity and happiness of the people,". by declaring that " the people alone have an incontestible. unalienable and indefeasible right to institute Government,...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,...
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Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of ..., Pages 94-830

Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 pages
...people," by declaring that " tlie people ulone have an incontestable, unuiiemihle and indefensible right to institute Government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and farther, that " All elections ought to be free : and all the inhabitants of thin Commonwealth,...
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Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the ...

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1832 - 276 pages
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, 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...
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Documents Printed by Order of the Senate

Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, 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...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state"; and that "they have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government,...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...
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