| Andrew White Young - 1846 - 240 páginas
...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...usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent... | |
| William Hickey - 1846 - 396 páginas
...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...usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free Governments are destroyed. The precedent... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1846 - 334 páginas
...our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. Jf, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or...usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1982 - 204 páginas
...be no greater authority for this caution than George Washington, who said in his Farewell Address : "If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution...wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way The Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance,... | |
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