The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural... The Constitutional Review - Pàgina 2011923Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Massachusetts - 1905 - 1034 pàgines
...tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life : and whenever these great objects arc not obtained, the people have a right to alter the...body politic is formed by a voluntary association Body politic, of individuals : it is a social compact, by which the whole iSlJJtuS?'1' people covenants... | |
| Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1905 - 418 pàgines
...is to secure to the people under it their happy existence. It must furnish to individuals the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural rights and the blessings of life. The power is the people's. They are not to be controlled except by laws to which they or their representatives... | |
| Harry Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf - 1906 - 594 pàgines
...existence of the body politic ; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness. Therefore we, the people of the commonwealth of Liberia in Africa, acknowledging with devout gratitude... | |
| Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston - 1906 - 584 pàgines
...existence of the body politic ; to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness. Therefore we, the people of the commonwealth of Liberia in Africa, acknowledging with devout gratitude... | |
| 1909 - 538 pàgines
...existence of the body politic ; to protect it, and furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life."8 "All men are born free and equal, and have certain, natural, essential and inalienable rights,... | |
| 1896 - 542 pàgines
...natural rights, and the blessings of life;" the failure to attain which objects invests the people with a " right to alter the government, and to take measures...necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness." This body politic, which is " formed by a voluntary association of individuals," is further described... | |
| Amos Jenkins Peaslee, Dorothy Peaslee Xydis - 1974 - 1164 pàgines
...existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity, their natural...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness. Therefore, we the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia, in Africa, acknowledging, with devout gratitude,... | |
| H. Th. J. F. van Maarseveen, Ger F. M. van der Tang - 1978 - 358 pàgines
...and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquility, their natural rights, and the blessings of life; and...necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness" (preamble Liberia). 6. Documentary constitution and aspects of cultural life Var. 157 Does the constitution... | |
| Lewis Perry, Michael Fellman - 1981 - 376 pàgines
...the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 declared that "whenever these great objects [of government] are not obtained, the people have a right to alter...necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness." The New Hampshire Constitution of 1784 (Part I, Article X) went so far as to guarantee a right of revolution... | |
| Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 pàgines
...existence of the body-politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural...measures necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness.1 The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact,... | |
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