 | United States - 1840 - 128 pages
...ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this, in... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Presidents - 1840 - 256 pages
...ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own. eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...distribution or modification of the constitutional posvers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the cosistitutiotj... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...experiments, ancient and modern; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...experiments, ancient and modern; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...ancient and modern . — some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this in... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...ancient and modern : some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.... | |
 | Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...ancient and modern ; some of them in our own country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion...by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.... | |
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If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for,... 
