 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1848 - 146 pages
...necessary as to constitute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,...governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,...governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong,...governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Law - 1848 - 244 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong,...by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, Bay be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the. people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,...designates : but let there be no change by usurpation ; f'.r though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which... | |
 | Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be, in any particular, wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this, in... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 510 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,...governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be in any particular wrong,...governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong,...Governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can, at any time, yield.... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be, in any particular, wrong,...Governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can, at any time, yield.... | |
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If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though... 
