...proposed that the bill of rights for the national government declare that "the Powers of Government" could be "reassumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness." The omission of such principles in the bill of rights proposed by Madison led Aedanus Burke to dismiss...

...declaration of the principles on which her assent was given, from which the following extract is made: " That the powers of government may be reassumed by...whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness; that every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not, by the said Constitution, clearly delegated...

...Accompanying it was a declaration of the principles in which the assent of New York was conceded.... "That the powers of government may be reassumed by...whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness." Jefferson Davis also pointed out the contradictory view that existed within the Republican party. Abraham...

...therefore are their trustees and agents, and at all times amenable to them." 124 Third Declaration: "That the powers of government may be reassumed by...whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness: - That the rights of the States respectively, to nominate and appoint all State Officers, and every...

...expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union." New York more explicitly said: "That the powers of government may be reassumed by the people whenever it should become necessary to their happiness, that every power, jurisdiction, and right which...