...April 20, 1777. i'aisachusctts ver}' emphatic, March 2, 1780, "the people ALONE have an inconteshblc, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government,...and to reform, alter or totally change the same." Vermont, in 1786. Then came even South Carolina in 1790, and so on down to the last State in the Union....

...people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute go^ vernment ; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.2 VIII. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people...

...profit, "honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men. Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it." These provisions are both of them retained in the present constitution, and seem to the Committee to...

...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...

...interest of any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government...safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. ART. S. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people have...

...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. CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS. Right of peooffice' ART. 8. In order to prevent those, who are vested...

...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...

...any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, unalienablc, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and...safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. ART. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people have...

...honestly administered, and efficiently executed. The Constitution of 1780, recognizing the people's " right to institute government, and to reform, alter,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it," made it obligatory on the Legislature of fifteen years later to submit to the people the question of...

...round their necks. Our Bill of Rights says that " the people alone have an incontestsble, inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally to change the same." Now, Sir, that is a fundamental right which overrides all limitations upon the...