 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 432 pages
...truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind." Or, in the language of our own State, "that the powers of government may be re-assumed by...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness." In respect to State governments, this control can be constitutionally exercised by a bare majority... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - Nullification - 1834 - 396 pages
...truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind." Or, in the language of our own State, " that the powers of Government may be re-assumed by...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness." In respect to State governments, this control can be constitutionally exercised by a bare majority... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...from the people. That magistrates are their trustees and agents, and at all times amenable to them. " That the powers of government may be re-assumed by...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness. " Under these impressions, and declaring that the rights aforesaid cannot be abridged or violated,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1861 - 992 pages
...Constitution, three States asserted their sovereign right to resume the powers they had delegated. New York declared ' that the powers of government may be reassumed...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness f and further indicates what people she means, by speaking, in the same connection, of the residuary... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...Constitution, three States asserted their sovereign right to resume the powers they had delegated. New York declared ' that the powers of government may be reassumed...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness :' and further indicates what people she means, by speaking, in the same connection, of the residuary... | |
 | Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 340 pages
...change and modify it."—Inaugural Address. Rhode Island herself, by her Convention of 1790, said, " that the powers of government may be reassumed by...it shall become necessary to their happiness." The people, then, are to be the judge; for none will be so stupid as to believe that it was to be left... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 788 pages
...them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that " the powers of Government may be re-assumed...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness." And the State of Khode Island adopted the same language. The reader of American history must guard... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 758 pages
...whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that u the powers of Government may be re-assumed by the...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness." And the State of Rhode Island adopted the same language. The reader of American history must guard... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 778 pages
...them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that " the powers of Government may be re-assumed...whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness." And the State of Rhode Island adopted the same language. The reader of American history must guard... | |
 | 1868 - 412 pages
...cxercised."f The Convention of New York, in its ratification ordinance, said : " That the powers of the Government may be reassumed by the people whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness ; " and it was ratified by this State subject to this and some other conditions.^ In Rhode Island,... | |
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That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people whenever it shall become necessary to their happiness... 
