 | Isaac Goodwin - 1834 - 382 pages
...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...VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the People have a right, at such periods and in such manner as... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1888 - 576 pages
...themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent state;' and that ' they have an incontcstible, (inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and...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... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pages
...the people : and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...happiness of the people, and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, and any class of men ; therefore the people alone have an...or totally change the same when their protection, safely, prosperity, and happiness require it."— Constitution of Massachusetts. "That government is,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the people: and not for the profit, honour, or private interest of any one man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it " In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 pages
...man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. 9. All elections ought to be free : and all the inhabitants of this commonwealth, having such qualifications... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...interest of any one man, family, or class of men. Therefore, THE TEOPLF. alone have an inalienable and indefeasible right to institute government, and...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." The people in the latter sentence, is certainly the same people mentioned in the former ; and they... | |
 | 1852 - 680 pages
...man, family, or any one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. 9. All elections ought to be free : and all the inhabitants of this commonwealth, having such qualifications... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1853 - 688 pages
...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 incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...happiness of the people ; of people to inand not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men : Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, nnalienable, and indefeasible right to inotituto government • and to reform, alter,... | |
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man, family or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require... 
