 | Andrew Johnson - Presidents - 1866 - 554 pages
...me read that clause of the Bill of Rights of Virginia, which relates to this (third clause) : That government is or ought to be instituted for the common...community ; of all the various modes and forms of govsrnment, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety,... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 594 pages
...Bills of Rights of the various Virginia Constitutions is found the following declaration: — " That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the...secured ' against the danger of maladministration; and that when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the... | |
 | France - 2001 - 244 pages
...the common benefit, prorection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the vattous modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the grearest degree of happiness and safery, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration;... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...Pennsylvania's bill of rights followed Virginia's wording and defined the criteria of good government as the "common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community." Good government was inconsistent with "the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family,... | |
 | George M. Stephens - Law - 2002 - 224 pages
...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 common...secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - Law - 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 the...secured against the danger of maladministration; and that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the... | |
 | Yuval Merin - Social Science - 2010 - 415 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...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons,... | |
 | Andrew Koppelman - Law - 2010 - 221 pages
...opinion relies on the peculiar "common benefits clause" of the Vermont constitution, which says that "government is, or ought to be, instituted for the...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons,... | |
 | 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...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons,... | |
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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 ; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness... 
