| Henry Clay - 1857 - 650 páginas
...people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government ; and so undoubtedly it is. But this is a right only to be exercised in grave and extreme...government." Will it be pretended that the actual government of Rhode Island is destructive of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness ? That it has... | |
| Henry Wager Halleck - 1878 - 644 páginas
...resorted to only where all other means of redress have failed. ' Governments, long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing mvariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under an absolute... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1895 - 508 páginas
...the Declaration says :" Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them [the people]... | |
| Virginia - 1893 - 614 páginas
...penalty of evil Doing. " Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, but when a long train of abuses and userpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to perpetuate an absolute Despotism... | |
| Ralph Phillip Weinberg - 1898 - 188 páginas
...safety and 97 happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute... | |
| Percy MacKaye - 1915 - 108 páginas
...safety and happiness. . . . Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objects, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1917 - 296 páginas
...ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. ... Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute... | |
| 1920 - 1018 páginas
..."Prudence, indeed," runs the indictment, "will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute... | |
| Guy Emerson - 1920 - 336 páginas
...impel them to the separation. . . . Prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 1146 páginas
...that a long-established practice of ultimate and final judicial review by the Supreme Court should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of judicial abuses and usurpations pursuing the same object threatens to reduce the constitutional powers... | |
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