The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only... The political works of Thomas Paine - Página 37por Thomas Paine - 1826 - 425 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 311 páginas
...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the...and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.49 Paine's belief in a historical state of nature led him in Rights of Man, Part II, to assert... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 páginas
...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the...is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence;... | |
| Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 páginas
...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the...only principle on which they have a right to exist. Dedicated to George Washington, and a rhapsody to France's new constitutional monarchy under the enlightened... | |
| Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 páginas
...Paine, a leading American revolutionary, agreed that a government founded upon the consent of the people "is the only mode in which Governments have a right...and the only principle on which they have a right to exist."79 No wonder then that the Revolutionaryera state constitutions declared that "government of... | |
| Glen Yeadon - 2008 - 528 páginas
...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the...only principle on which they have a right to exist. Jefferson received a good response in 10 of the measures comprising the original Bill of Rights. The... | |
| 468 páginas
...— not the compact creating society, but a second compact among the members of society establishing a government, "and this is the only mode in which...only principle on which they have a right to exist." This compact is the constitution, which is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal,... | |
| Hegarty, - 1999 - 493 páginas
...favours granted by States. On the contrary, the protection and promotion of such rights was deemed to be 'the only mode in which governments have a right to...only principle on which they have a right to exist'. 2^ Article 29 of the Universal Declaration further recognises that the protection of an individual's... | |
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