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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... "
Debates and Proceedings of the Maryland Reform Convention to Revise the ... - Page 163
by Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1851
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. " That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform,...
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Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry

William Wirt - 1848 - 320 pages
...of democracy? Let me read that clause of the bill of rights of Virginia, which relates to this: — forms of government, that is best which is capable...is most effectually secured against the danger of nrml-administration; and that whenever any government shall be found inadequate, or contrary to these...
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The Principles of Civil Government Familiarly Illustrated: Including a ...

Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...are their trustees and servants, and at alt times, in a legal way, accountable to them. ARTICLE 7. That government is or ought to be, instituted for...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. " That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...the common benefit, protection, and security of the pecple, nation, or community: of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 544 pages
...hardly means as much as the clause in the same declaration which says, " that government is or ouyht to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people," &,c. A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the freemen of North Carolina was ratified...
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A Memoir of Thomas Chittenden: The First Governor of Vermont; with a History ...

Daniel Chipman - Constitutional history - 1849 - 234 pages
...legislative or executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times accountable to them. VI. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...protection, and security of the people, nation or community ; and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family or set of men, who are...
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Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry

William Wirt - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1850 - 314 pages
...me read that clause of the bill of rights of Virginia, which relates to this : — "''Third Article. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable'of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against...
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Governor's Message and Annual Reports of the Public Officers of the ..., Part 1

Virginia - Virginia - 1851 - 1348 pages
...the people ; that magistrates are their trustee* and servanta, and at all times amenable to them. 3. That government is, or ought to be instituted for...the various modes and forms of government, that is beet which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is moat effectually...
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The Constitution of the State of Vermont: Adopted by Convention Held in the ...

Vermont - Constitutions - 1852 - 86 pages
...executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times, in a legal way, accountable to them. VII. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are...
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History of Vermont: Natural, Civil and Statistical, in Three Parts ..., Volume 3

Zadock Thompson - Natural history - 1853 - 736 pages
...executive, are their trustees and servants, and at all times, in a legal way, accountable to them. VII. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for...and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or ad vantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are...
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