 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...convention, and referred to the committee of the whole. The secretary read it as follows : SEC. — . That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and consent, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness, and the security of their property.... | |
 | Daniel Chipman - History - 1849 - 234 pages
...find a people forming a written Constitution of civil government, founded on the great principle, that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority. And in the exercise of their primitive sovereignty, the people parcelled out the powers of government,... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1022 pages
...here, in the second section of the first article of our present Constitution, it iadeclared, " That all power is inherent in the people; and all free...peace, . safety, and happiness. For the advancement of j these ends, they have, at all times, an unalienable and indefeasable right to alter or reform their... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1012 pages
...that all power is inherent in the people, and that all free governments are, and of right ought to be, founded on their authority, and instituted for their...safety, and happiness. For the advancement of these ends the people have at all times an inalienable right to alter and reform their government." I will contrast... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...(2d section of the Bill of Rights, under the 9th Article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania), that " all power is inherent in the people, and all free...their government, in such manner as they may think proper." It has been well said, by one of the ablest judges of the age, that " a constitution is not... | |
 | Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 pages
...freemen, exists no where in a republic — not even in the largest majority. 30 31 SECTION 4. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free...authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, happiness, security, and the protection of property. For the advancement of these ends, they have at... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 1104 pages
...that all power is inherent in the people; and that all free governments arc, and of right out to be, founded on their authority, and instituted for their...and happiness. For the advancement of these ends, the people have, at all times, an inalienable right to alter and reform their government. That the... | |
 | Kentucky - Law - 1851 - 548 pages
...of freemen, exists no where in a republic — not even in the largest majority. 81 SECTION 4. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, nnd instituted for their peace, safety, happiness, security, and the protection of property. For the... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...article of the declaration of rights of Tennessee, concludes as follows: "They, (meaning the people,) have at all times an unalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may think proper." And for the same purpose he referred... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...increase, is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any .property whatever. SEC. 4. That all power is inherent in the people, and all free...authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, happiness, security, and the protection of property. For the advancement of these ends, they have at... | |
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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... 
