 | George Allen - Political Science - 2006 - 214 pages
...their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them. "Article 3: That government is, our ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection,...and security of the people, nation, or community; of all die various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest... | |
 | Elizabeth Price Foley - History - 2008 - 303 pages
...power is naturally invested in, and consequently derived from, the peopie. . . . 3d. That government ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people. . . . 5 THE FOUNDERS' CONSTITUTION, at 15 (Virginia); id. at 17 (North Carolina). 34. See, eg, RICHARD... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard L. Lubert - Political Science - 2007 - 1236 pages
...people; that magistrates are tbcir trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them. SEC. 3. ple at first, will accompany of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...the People; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. 3. That Government is, or ought to be, instituted for...and security of the people, nation, or community, of all the various modes and forms of government that is best which is capable of PRODUCING THE GREATEST... | |
 | Christian G. Fritz - History - 2007
...were "contrary to the genius of a free State"), 3o82-83 (government was for the "common benefit ... of the people, nation or community; and not for the...emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or sett of men"). For the theme of protecting the public welfare in American law, see William J. Novak,... | |
 | Peter Wallenstein - Virginia - 2007 - 508 pages
...are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. Section 3. That Govern mentis, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit,...and security of the people, nation, or community;— of all the various modes and forms of Government that is best which is capable of producing the greatest... | |
 | J. David Hoeveler - History - 2007 - 404 pages
...reaction against the proprietary history of the colony. "Government," said the new constitution, "is . . . not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men." The constitution expanded the base of decision making, beginning with the electorate itself (no financial... | |
 | John E. Hill - Political culture - 2007 - 290 pages
...(an interest group or a faction), the founders abhorred it. The constitution of Vermont stated that "'the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community, and not the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family or set of men who are a part only of... | |
 | Kevin Raeder Gutzman - Republicanism - 2007 - 256 pages
...View. Article 3 laid claim to the right of revolution whenever the government should fail to inure to "the common benefit protection and Security of the People Nation or Community . . . [and] the greatest degree of happiness and Safety" or to be "most effectually secured against the danger... | |
 | Nancy D. Polikoff - Civil unions - 2008 - 284 pages
...exclusion from marriage violated the state constitution's common benefits clause. The clause affirms that "government is, or ought to be, instituted for...the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons, who are a part only of that community." That argument resulted in... | |
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