 | John Milton Niles - 1837 - 620 pages
...entitled to exclusive public privileges or emoluments from the community. " Second. All political power is inherent in the People, and all free governments...founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit ; aud they have at all times an inalienable right to alter their government in such manner... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 812 pages
...argued as tjiough this Convention had derived its power and authority from that section : namely, " That all power is inherent in the people, and all free Governments are founded upon their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness. For the advancement of... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 520 pages
...rights which he thought would overturn the whole of it. The second section of the Bill of Rights says, " that all power is inherent in the people, and all...peace, safety, and happiness : For the advancement of those ends, they have at all times an unalienablc and indefeasable right to alter, reform or abolish... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...called, a government of professions, and not fitted to carry out the principles we professed, viz : " All power is inherent in the people, and all free...on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safetv, and happiness : For the advancement of those ends, they have, at all times, an unalienable... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 388 pages
...The convention then proceeded to the consideration of the second section, whk:h is as follows: SKCT. 2. That all power is inherent in the people, and all...governments are founded on their authority, and instituted fur their peace, safety, and happiness: For the advancement of those encis, they have, at all times,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 804 pages
...view this bill as one of momentous importance. We hold these principles to be correct and sacred, " that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are instituted for their peace and happiness. For the advancement of these ends, they have at all times,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 310 pages
...amounts to nothing at all ? Let us examine this question of faith, and let us see what there is in it. " That all power is inherent in the people, and all...governments are founded on their authority, and instituted fur their peace, safety and happiness. For the advancement of these ends, they have, at all times,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1839 - 382 pages
...of government as will ptease them best. It ia a provision in your bill of rights iiiat " all p-'iwer is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their au'.horit}', anJ instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness : For the advancement of those ends,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...alter, kform. or abolish their government, whenever they may deem it necessary." -Cnnstitulion of Ohio. "That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are 'unded on their authority, and. instituted for their peace, safely, and happiness. For the advancement... | |
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That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness. 
