 | Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 strani
...law. In his Farewell Address (1796), Washington observed that "The very idea of the power and right of the People to establish Government presupposes...Government. All obstructions to the execution of the Laws . . . are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency." Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed... | |
 | Christian G. Fritz - 2007
...other constitutional change was revolutionary. As he put it, "The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes...every Individual to obey the established Government." Washington's description of the sovereignty of the people became associated - as it would for many... | |
 | Charles Tilly - 2009 - 200 strani
...He warned against sectionalism, against advocates of involvement in foreign wars, against "faction": All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all...to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle... | |
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But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every... 
