The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured,... The Alumni Bulletin - Página 3301908Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 páginas
...laboring class of the people, reduced to abject slavery. These are not the doctrines of the present age. The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every...his purse or person to the support of his country. The small and imperfect mixture of representative government in England, impeded as it is by other... | |
| 1911 - 994 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit, — government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves.' The framers of the Constitution were entirely familiar with the failure of direct democracy in the... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device hy which these rights can be secured ; to wit, government by the people, acting not in person, but...his purse or person to the support of his country." Could any thing be clearer or wiser than this statement ? Immediate participation in the government... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association - 1911 - 282 páginas
...radical in its democracy. In speaking of 'the equal rights of man, ' Thomas Jefferson declared that — 'Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having...person, but by representatives chosen by themselves.' The framers of the Constitution were entirely familiar with the failure of direct democracy in the... | |
| West Virginia Bar Association - 1926 - 332 páginas
...signal advantage too of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit, government by the people acting not in person but by representatives chosen by themselves." all of our active occupations but we have tried to keep it out of government and do the things ourselves... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but...his purse or person to the support of his country. — To M. CORAY. VÜ, 319. (M., 1823.) 3531. GOVERNMENT, Origin of.— There is an error into which... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit : government by the people, acting not in person, but...contributes by his purse or person to the support of his countrv. — To M. CORAY. vii, 318. (M., 182г) — GOVERNMENT, Territory and. — See TERRITORY. 3570.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 550 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but...his purse or person to the support of his country. The small and imperfect mixture of representative government in England, impeded as it is by other... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1903 - 234 páginas
...Modern times have discovered the only device by which the people's rights can be secured, to wit : Government by the people, acting not in person, but...sane mind, who either contributes by his purse or his person to the support of his country." t He reconciled his personal feeling with holding office... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 páginas
...advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but...his purse or person to the support of his country. The small and imperfect mixture of representative government in England, impeded as it is by other... | |
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