 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 436 lapas
...now endeavoring to impose upon the people of Missouri. It expressly asserts the principles that "all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed; and the right of the people to alter or abolish and institute it anew, as to them shall seem most likely... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 530 lapas
...Connecticut [Mr. Plattl answered an inquiry of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Hoar] by saying that "the just powers of government are derived from the consent of some of the governed." That is strictly true. True, as the Senator from Connecticut pointed out at... | |
 | Henry William Carless Davis - 1914 - 346 lapas
...principles, he selects one of the propositions laid down in the American Declaration of Independence : " The just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed." When he wishes to define liberty in the political sense, he contends that it means " ruling and being... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 218 lapas
...governed." I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. Now 30 the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1916 - 422 lapas
...powers to be exercised. This is one thing, at least, that our fathers meant when they declared that "all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed." However inadequately a maxim may state it, it is a principle so broad and clear that no one need ever... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1918 - 496 lapas
...— that seems to me to be a very poor line of argument and rather a subversion of the mental idea that the just powers of Government are derived from the consent of the governed. It seems to me, gentlemen, that that is rather a fundamental question which is directly involved here.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1918 - 1106 lapas
...from them. Abraham Lincoln, in a speech at Peoria in 1854, said this: According to our ancient faith the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. . . . Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that and that only is self-government.... | |
 | Edwin Orin Wood - 1918 - 886 lapas
...of Governor, he was inspired by the sentiments expressed in the Declaration of Independence that all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. From the very first, he exercised his influence, not to extend the almost despotic power which was... | |
 | Edwin Orin Wood - 1918 - 863 lapas
...Governor, .he was inspired by the sentiments expressed in the Declaration of Independence that all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. From the very first, he exercised his influence, not to extend the almost despotic power which was... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1919 - 62 lapas
...their thought upon this matter. Now, why is not that fair and why is it not good American doctrine? The just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed, and why is it not fair to amend the Constitution of the United States and allow the people to vote... | |
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... all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. 
