The Rights and Wrongs of Rhode Island: Comprising Views of Liberty and Law, of Religion and Rights, as Exhibited in the Recent and Existing Difficulties in that State |
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... citizens are flying from the State to escape imprisonment merely for having voted under the new Suffrage Constitution , and for having defended it in argument , and while the call for the appointment of delegates to the coming ...
... citizens are flying from the State to escape imprisonment merely for having voted under the new Suffrage Constitution , and for having defended it in argument , and while the call for the appointment of delegates to the coming ...
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... citizens have been ' denounced as tyrants and oppressors , ' ] or at least it has been countenanced and abetted by men who call themselves the disciples of the Lord Jesus , who partake of the elements of that body which was broken , and ...
... citizens have been ' denounced as tyrants and oppressors , ' ] or at least it has been countenanced and abetted by men who call themselves the disciples of the Lord Jesus , who partake of the elements of that body which was broken , and ...
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... citizens , ) continues to wield the power of the State . 3. The R. I. Assembly , itself , gave its own ratification of all this , on the 12th of July 1776 , by adopting , as their own , the Declara- tion of Independence , made , a few ...
... citizens , ) continues to wield the power of the State . 3. The R. I. Assembly , itself , gave its own ratification of all this , on the 12th of July 1776 , by adopting , as their own , the Declara- tion of Independence , made , a few ...
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... citizens of Rhode Island . " None but " freemen " are empanneled and can sit as jurors . This fact , by the bye , puts additional terrors into the hands of the Charter government , by whom the Constitutional Governor Dorr and his ...
... citizens of Rhode Island . " None but " freemen " are empanneled and can sit as jurors . This fact , by the bye , puts additional terrors into the hands of the Charter government , by whom the Constitutional Governor Dorr and his ...
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... CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES ! * Very plainly , by this Statute , any new resident , not a free- holder , might be " bound out into slavery at the South ! What a parallel have we here to those infamous laws by which free col- ored citizens ...
... CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES ! * Very plainly , by this Statute , any new resident , not a free- holder , might be " bound out into slavery at the South ! What a parallel have we here to those infamous laws by which free col- ored citizens ...
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Page 93 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 13 - Every subject of the Commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay; conformably to the laws.
Page 91 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Page 25 - Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of...
Page 40 - Sec. 2. All free governments are instituted for the protection, safety and happiness of the people. All laws, therefore, should be made for the good of the whole; and the burdens of the State ought to be fairly distributed among its citizens.
Page 91 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 27 - They must have reflected that in all great changes of established governments forms ought to give way to substance; that a rigid adherence in such cases to the former would render nominal and nugatory the transcendent and precious right of the people to "abolish or alter their governments as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness...
Page 25 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 40 - All political power and sovereignty are originally vested in, and of right belong to, the people. All free governments are founded in their authority, and are established for the greatest good of the whole number. The people have therefore an inalienable and indefeasible right, in their original, sovereign, and unlimited capacity, ta ordain and institute government, and in the same capacity to alter, reform, or totally change the same, whenever their safety or happiness requires.
Page 25 - ... when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.