The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural... Mercersburg Review - Page 3141851Full view - About this book
| J. W. Lugenbeel - 1868 - 336 pages
...maintenance and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with...tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life ; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government,... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1870 - 708 pages
...Rights declares that " The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...their natural rights and the blessings of life." The common maxim, " The safety of the people is the supreme law," embodies and expresses the grand principle... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1870 - 334 pages
...of the soil ; that ' the end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...tranquillity their natural rights and the blessings of life ; ' — when we consider all this, and that government, in all its branches and departments, in all... | |
| Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 pages
...EIGHTS, 1780. PREAMBLE. The end of the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to .secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life ; and whenever these great objects are... | |
| Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 pages
...EIGHTS, 1780. PREAMBLE. The end of the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoyiag, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life; and whenever these... | |
| William O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 pages
...CONSTITUTION. PREAMBLE. THE end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life: and whenever these great objects are not... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court - 1876 - 418 pages
...annulled, PREAMBLE. THE end of the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect...it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it witli the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life... | |
| 1888 - 738 pages
...as follows : — " The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life ; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government,... | |
| Massachusetts gen. court - 1881 - 462 pages
...annulled. 96. PREAMBLE. THE end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect...tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life: and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government,... | |
| 1881 - 980 pages
...are these words: " The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect...tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life : and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government,... | |
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