 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 pages
...GOVERNED." I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not... | |
 | United States. 59th Congress, 1st, session, House. [from old catalog] - 1906 - 1052 pages
...that the proposed bills are in violation of the first principles of our American Institutions—that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. The proposition in un-American. We accordingly respectfully but earnestly protest against it. Passed... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - Constitutional history - 1907 - 256 pages
...are endowed with an unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. This is the basis of popular liberty, and even in monarchical governments, which in modern times have... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1911 - 766 pages
...purpose does not prove the argument itself bad. Our independence was established on the theory that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. But nowhere in our Declaration of Independence is it shown what shall constitute the " just powers... | |
 | 1907 - 250 pages
...Independence, so dear to the hearts of all Americans, contains the germ of the theory of our republic, — "all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed." How scrupulous and courageous the citizen must be to abide by this covenant in the faithful discharge... | |
 | Women - 1912 - 404 pages
...of government, the theory of government to which this country was committed in the great phrase that "The just powers of government are derived from the...so wise, so benevolent that it is fitted to govern for any other class, no matter how wise or benevolent that ruling class may be? Does it not mean that,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1912 - 180 pages
...governed." I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not... | |
 | L. T. Myers - Presidents - 1912 - 368 pages
...are founded are those which find expression in the Declaration of Independence in the statement that "just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed." The Initiative The initiative law is that which gives to the people the right by petition to compel... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage - Women - 1913 - 112 pages
...government, the theory of government to which this country was committed in the great phrase that " The just powers of government are derived from the...so wise, so benevolent that it is fitted to govern for any other class, no matter how wise or benevolent that ruling class mav !»'< Does it not mean... | |
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... all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. 
