| New York (State). Court of Appeals - 1863 - 254 lapas
...Art. 3, §§ 1, 2.) The Constitution was a practical illustration of the great truth proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. It recognized the People of the United States as the only legitimate source... | |
| Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 lapas
...entered jhe imagination of man. (Applause.) Despotic governments do not proclaim, as our fathers did in the Declaration of Independence, that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That was the foundation upon which this great superstructure of civil liberty,... | |
| Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - 1890 - 192 lapas
...pithily stated that the Southern claim of secession rested upon two fundamental principles. One was that of the Declaration of Independence, that " all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed "; the general conclusion being that the governed may legally withdraw that... | |
| 1899 - 848 lapas
...entanglements of the Oriental powers ; it is the contravention of the basic principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that, "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." It is opposed to the principles and practice of this government in the acquisition... | |
| 1901 - 526 lapas
...not to be deplored. One of those questions is the meaning, the force and effect of the statement in the Declaration of Independence that "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." That doctrine is not embodied in the constitution in those words nor in words... | |
| 1903 - 1238 lapas
...the people of a State. And that is only another way of putting the famous apothegm of the American Declaration of Independence that "all Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." To deny this proposition is to say that the body-politic is a dead thing... | |
| Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1910 - 930 lapas
...exclusive jurisdiction of ten miles square in the District of Columbia, is a violation of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed? Does he hold that that is a violation of the principle for which we contended... | |
| Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1911 - 564 lapas
...fully realized in our day, for with us it is accepted as a self-evident truth as expressed in the words of the Declaration of Independence, that all governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." But the statements contained in this compact were not the views commonly... | |
| Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1916 - 274 lapas
...fundamental precept that one people has no right to subjugate another. He accepted literally the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that all governments " derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." But it was said that the Filipinos were incapable of self-government. To... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler - 1917 - 270 lapas
...conflict between two theories of politically organized man, one written in undying words in our own Declaration of Independence, that all governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed"; and the other based on the theory of a state all-powerful, unrestrained,... | |
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