 ... common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people ; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men ; Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 2581905Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1819 - 838 pages
...power. The indefeasible right of the people, " to institute government," and " to reform, alter, and change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it," is distinctly asserted in the bill of rights. But the constitution contains no provision for a revision,... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...incontestible, unaliena- Se^w^"? ble, and indefeasible right, to institute government ; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. ARTICLE vm. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible rjght, to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness, require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...have an inchntestihle, unalienahle, and indefeasihle right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness, require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from hecoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII.—IN order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." It is, and accordingly has always been, treated as a fundamental law, and not as a mere contract of... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. — IN order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...THE TEOPLF. alone have an inalienable and indefeasible right to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." The people in the latter sentence, is certainly the same people mentioned in the former ; and they... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1844 - 416 pages
...have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government ; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. IN order to prevent those, who are vested with author- Right of people ity, from becoming oppressors,... | |
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