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" That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... "
Report of the Trial and Acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice ... - Page 263
by William Hamilton - 1805 - 582 pages
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Smull's Legislative Hand Book: Rules and Decisions ... Legislative Directory

Pennsylvania - 1875 - 724 pages
...legislative or executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times accountable to them. V. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...set of men who are a part only of that community; and that the community hath an indubitable, unalienablo and indefeasible right to reform, alter or...
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The History of Pennsylvania from the Earliest Discovery to the Present Time ...

William Mason Cornell - Dutch - 1876 - 598 pages
...legislative or executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times accountable to them. " 5. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...the people, nation, or community, and not for the advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who form a part only of that community : And that...
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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 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...protection and security of the people, nation or community. Of all the various modes arid forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the...
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Courts and the Culture Wars

Bradley C. S. Watson - Law - 2002 - 240 pages
...Constitution's Common Benefits clause in deciding the case. That clause, in pertinent part, reads: "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."66 The Court then held that...
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The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law

Andrew Koppelman - Law - 2010 - 220 pages
...majority opinion relies on the peculiar "common benefits clause" of the Vermont constitution, which says 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." 22 (Since the decision relied...
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Equality for Same-Sex Couples: The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in ...

Yuval Merin - Social Science - 2010 - 397 pages
...protection and the "Common Benefit Clause" of the Vermont constitution, which provides in part that the "government is, or ought to be, instituted for the...the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons, who are part of that community."243 The case, Baker v. State of...
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Locke, Jefferson, and the Justices: Foundations and Failures of the US ...

George M. Stephens - Law - 2002 - 224 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 the...protection, 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...
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Quellen zur Entstehung der Grundrechte in Deutschland

Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - Philosophy - 2002 - 336 pages
...people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. Sec. 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...
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H.R. 5005, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Days 1 and 2 ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security - National security - 2002 - 212 pages
...George Mason, the Virginian and who made the case for the Bill of Rights to our Constitution, wrote, "government is, or ought to be instituted for the...and security of the people, Nation or community." Mr. Chairman, we need to secure our borders as we secure our liberty. We must protect our rights as...
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Psychiatry in Law/law in Psychiatry: Psychiatry in law

Ralph Slovenko - Forensic psychiatry - 2002 - 586 pages
...Supreme Court, on the basis of a 200-year-old clause of the state constitution that government should be "instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community," ordered the state to guarantee the same protections and benefits to homosexual couples that it does...
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