 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped...any individual ; and a nation has at all times an mherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and establish such... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 372 pages
...for that species of government. A general revolution in the construction of governments it necessary. Usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty,...a matter of right, appertains to the nation only, not any individual. The romantic and barbarous classing of men into kings and subjects, though it may... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1856 - 168 pages
...man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force and contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance,...to any individual ; and a nation has at all times in inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and to establish... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...whole community, at whose expense it is supported ; and though hy force or contrivance it has heen s march. We arc not at an end of our struggle, indefeasihle right to aholish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and estahlish such as accords... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 494 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped...individual ; and a nation has at all times an inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 500 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpa tion cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the... | |
 | James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 pages
...republican — is one who wishes to promote the general welfare of the people," (p. 244) — that " sovereignty as a matter of right, appertains to the nation only, and not to any individual" — (a sentence of Tom Paine's, which Mr. Twiss prints in italics, but which seems to us the soundest... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 634 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped...individual, and a nation has at all times an inherent, indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community, at whose expense it is supported; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped...individual ; and a nation has at all times an inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1891 - 640 pages
...property of any particular man or family, but of the whole community at whose expense it is supported ; and though by force or contrivance it has been usurped...Sovereignty as a matter of right appertains to the nation onlv, and not to any individual, and a nation has at all times an inherent, indefeasible right to abolish... | |
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Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times an inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of Government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords with its... 
