 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1913 - 640 pages
...down my words ; — you have not been elected for this purpose — you are appointed to make laws, and not legislatures — you are appointed to act under the Constitution, not to alter it — you are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators, and not to transfer them —... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - Ireland - 1916 - 594 pages
...take down my words. You have not been elected for this purpose. You are appointed to make laws and not legislatures. You are appointed to act under the constitution, not to alter it. You are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators and not to transfer them. And... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...take down my words. You have not been elected for this purpose. You are appointed to make laws, and not legislatures. You are appointed to act under the constitution, not to alter it. You are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators, and not to transfer them. And... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1892 - 1056 pages
...to obey it. I make the assertion deliberately. You have not been elected for this purpose. You are appointed to make laws, not legislatures. You are appointed to act under the Constitution, not to alter it. You are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators, not to transfer them ; and if... | |
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You are appointed to act under the constitution, not to alter it. You are appointed to exercise the functions of legislators, and not to transfer them. And if you do so your act is a dissolution of the government. You resolve society into its original... 
