| Sanford Levinson - Law - 1995 - 344 pages
...contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefcasable right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.29 2" See Geoffrey Seed, James Wilson ( 1978), pp. 123-24; and the eye-opening forthcoming essay... | |
| St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - Law - 2000 - 3301 pages
...that when any government shall be found inadequate, or contrary, to the purposes of its institution, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable...shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. SECTION IV. Political writers in general seem to be agreed that the several forms of government, which... | |
| Andy Williams - Political Science - 1998 - 230 pages
...contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and infeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner...shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. Section 4 That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges... | |
| Daniel T. Rodgers - History - 1998 - 294 pages
...collective right, inherent in "a majority of the community," to "reform, alter, or abolish" its government "in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal." The drafters of the Pennsylvania constitution, three months later, added a handful more: the natural... | |
| Carl Watner - Anarchism - 1999 - 504 pages
...Rights asserted the right of "a majority" (emphasis added) to "reform, alter, or abolish" government "in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal." (Section 3) The implication of the Virginia Bill of Rights was that a majority could set themselves... | |
| G. Alan Tarr - Law - 2000 - 262 pages
...from the people, from which they concluded, in the words of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, that "the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish government in such manner as shall be by that community judged most conducive to the public weal."53... | |
| Steve Glickman - Capitalism - 2001 - 106 pages
...maladministration; and that, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable,...shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. - The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 Our lives are ruled by one right and one freedom: The right... | |
| France - 2001 - 244 pages
...danger of maladministration; and that when any government shall be found inadequare or contraty to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform, alrer, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. 1V. That... | |
| Herbert E. Sloan - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 396 pages
...indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it [the existing government], in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal." Pennsylvania's 1776 constitution used the same language, differing from Virginia's only by the clarifying... | |
| Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - Law - 2002 - 336 pages
...of maladministration; and that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable,...shall be judged most conducive to the public weal. Sec. 4. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges... | |
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