 | Richard R. Moser - History - 1996 - 240 pages
...other. Beneath the symbol of America-run-amok the soldiers quoted Lincoln's first inaugural address. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.79 Even the proximity of the Vietnam and Lincoln memorials in Washington, DC , suggest a connection... | |
 | Wayne D. Moore - Law - 1998 - 312 pages
...constitutional change. He distinguished "revolutionary" from "constitutional" rights: "Whenever [the people] shall grow weary of the existing government, they...their constitutional right of amending it, or their 85 Lincoln, "First Inaugural," in Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick,... | |
 | Albert Fried - History - 1997 - 460 pages
...fundamentally amended. Lincoln's words, which still live today among the masses, are those which declared: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." These words of Lincoln are but a paraphrasing of the Declaration of Independence. Our national holiday,... | |
 | S. Nelson Drew - 1999 - 147 pages
...governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." — Tench Coxe This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly... | |
 | William W. Johnstone - Fiction - 1998 - 340 pages
...US Pat. & TM Off. First Printing: April, 1998 10 987654321 Printed in the United States of America This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln This One K9Y7-NCN-6Z2Z * Contents * Author's Note: About the Book 9 Part One: The... | |
 | Sharada Rath - Political Science - 1998 - 172 pages
...world ruled by a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. "This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." With these words, Abraham Lincoln understood the most fundamental concept of American government—... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - History - 1998 - 294 pages
...He admitted in his first inaugural that whenever "the people" (the whole people, not a mere faction) "shall grow weary of the existing government, they...their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."40 Well into the war he continued to think that yet another piece of constitutional tinkering would... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutlonal rive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not back 6342 I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, arc again upon you. This country, with its institutions,...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...superfluous or extraneous. In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln (as usual) gives us the last word: This country, with its institutions, belongs to the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. (emphasis original) "The Whole Theory of Democracy": Antonin Scalia, Meet James Madison and Friends... | |
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 
