 | Robert Baylor Semple - Baptists - 1810 - 514 pages
...the only meafure of their authority ; and that, in the plenitude of this authority, they may fweep away all our fundamental rights ; or, that they are...bound to leave this particular right untouched and facred : either we muft fay that they may controul the freedom of the prefs j may abolim the trial... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 592 pages
...measure of their authority ; and that i» the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all onr fundamental rights ; or, that they are bound to leave...that they may annihilate our very right of suffrage, and erect themselves into an independent and hereditary assembly ; or we must say that they have no... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...Legislature is the or.ly measure of their authority ; and that ia the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights ; or, that they...powers of the State ; nay, that they may annihilate our veiy right of suffrage, and erect themselves into an independent and hereditary assembly ; or we must... | |
 | 1817 - 442 pages
...legislature is the only measure of" their authority; and that in the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights; or that they...that they may annihilate our very right of suffrage, and erect themselves ijito an independent and hereditary :. ssembly; or we must say that they have... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...legislature is the only measure of their authority; and that in the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights; or that they...untouched and sacred: either we must say, that they may conirol the freedom of the press; may abolish the trial by jury; may gwallow up the executive aud judiciary... | |
 | James Madison - Church and state - 1828 - 16 pages
...Legislature is the only measure of their authority, and that, in the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights ; or, that they...right untouched and sacred: either we must say that tliey may control the freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow up the Executive... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...legislature is the only measure of their authority, and that, in the plenitude of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights ; or that they...judiciary powers of the state, — nay, that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage, and erect themselves into an independent and hereditary assembly... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...legislature is the only measure of their authority, and that, in the plenitude of that authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights ; or that they...judiciary powers of the State, — nay, that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage, and erect themselves into an independent and hereditary assembly,... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - Church history - 1891 - 1046 pages
...legislature is the only measure of their authority, and that in the plenitude of that authority they may sweep away all our fundamental rights, or that they...particular right untouched and sacred. Either we must say ihat they may control the freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow up the executive... | |
 | Freedom of religion - 1892 - 544 pages
...Legislature is the only measure of their authority, and that in the plenitude of that authority they may sweep away all our fundamental rights; or that they...judiciary powers of the State, nay, that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage, and erect themselves into an independent and hereditary Assembly... | |
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... of this authority, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights ; or that they are bound to leave this particular right untouched and sacred. 
