...or clai'sof men. — Therefore the people alone have an inconteltible, mulienable, and indefeafible right, to institute government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the lame, when their protection, fafety, prolperity and happinefs, require it. VIII. In order to prevent...

...power. The indefeasible right of the people, " to institute government," and " to reform, alter, and change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it," is distinctly asserted in the bill of rights. But the constitution contains no provision for a revision,...

...of men. There- The people to infore, the people alone have an incontestible, unaliena- Se^w^"? ble, and indefeasible right, to institute government ;...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. ARTICLE vm. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the...

...class of men. Therefore, the people alone i have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible rjght, to institute government; and to reform, alter, or...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness, require it. VIII. In order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people...

...one class of men. Therefore, the people alone have an inchntestihle, unalienahle, and indefeasihle right to institute government, and to reform, alter,...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness, require it. 8. In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from hecoming oppressors, the people have...

...instituted for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people,". by declaring that " the people alone have an incontestible. unalienable...and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and lartber, that " All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth,...

...people," by declaring that " tlie people ulone have an incontestable, unuiiemihle and indefensible right to institute Government, and to reform, alter, or totally change the same" — and farther, that " All elections ought to be free : and all the inhabitants of thin Commonwealth,...

...the idea of a man born a magistrate, law-giver, or judge, is absurd and unnatural. VII.—GOVERNMENT is instituted for the common good; for the protection,...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII.—IN order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people...

...blood, the idea of a man born a magistrate, lawgiver, or judge, is absurd and unnatural. * VII. — GOVERNMENT is instituted for the common good ; for...protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it. VIII. — IN order to prevent those, who are vested with authority, from becoming oppressors, the people...

...exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state " ; and that " they have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible...protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." It is, and accordingly has always been, treated as a fundamental law, and not as a mere contract of...