 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...powers uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support....measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of liberty. 4. . . My policy, in our foreign transactions, has been to cultivate peace with all the world;... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...judicial and executive proceedings. § 1. In the words of the Father of his Country, we declare, that " the basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government ; but that the constitution which at any time exists, till... | |
 | Child labor - 1922 - 196 pages
...Constitution can be made to protect the children of the Nation in this industrial age. George Washington said: "The basis of our political systems is the right of...make and to alter their constitutions of government." To V. EVEBIT MACY, Treasurer, The National Child Labor Committee, 105 East 22nd Street, New York City.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...itself a provision for its own amendment is well entitled to your confidence and support — Complian Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties dictated by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right... | |
 | Mary Helen Wilson - Constitutional amendments - 1976 - 80 pages
...Legislative Research Commission and paid for from state funds. ' 'The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." George Washington Farewell Address September 17, 1796 FOREWORD On November 8, 1977, Kentucky voters... | |
 | United States - Law - 1996 - 256 pages
...judicial and executive proceedings. SECTION 1. In the words of the Father of his Country, we declare that "the basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter (heir constitutions of government; but thai the constitution which at any time exists, till changed... | |
 | Philip Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...these reasons. As a second effort in reflection upon the nature of human beings, Washington demanded "respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures." The young Lincoln, however, asserts that the Revolution was the legacy of the founders and that its... | |
 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...he expressed his "debt of gratitude, which I owe to my beloved country."34 He asserted, "The basics of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."35 He insisted that "Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity,... | |
 | Bruce Burgett - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 222 pages
...democratic. "The basis of our political systems, states the "Address" in its most Bousseauist moment, "is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government" (8), This line of reasoning disincorporates sovereignty by shifting the locus ol the general will from... | |
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This, government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within... 
