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" The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting... "
The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State ... - Page 187
by Edward Long - 1774
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1819 - 810 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be : and when the people have said, we will submit...
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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke - Liberty - 1821 - 536 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, We will submit...
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Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on ...

Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...For it being a delegated power from the people, they, who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting a legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be; and when the people have said, we will...
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The Repealer's Manual; Or, Absenteeism: the Union Re-considered, Volume 1

William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be ; and when the people have said, we will submit...
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The Constitution of Society: As Designed by God

Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...the public will, are excluded from it ; and others usurp the place, who have no such authority. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, we will submit...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 15

English periodicals - 1843 - 648 pages
...it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the Commonwealth, which is by constituting the Legislature and appointing in 'whose hands that shall be ; and when the people have said we submit...
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A Full and Revised Report of the Three Days' Discussion in the Corporation ...

Esq. John Levy - Home rule - 1843 - 236 pages
...being but a " delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass " it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of " the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislature and " appointing in whose hands that shall be ; and when the people will have said, we...
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Might and Right

Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 352 pages
...least, absolves the unenfranchised from obedience to magistrates whom they have never chosen. '' The people alone can appoint the form of the Commonwealth, which is by constituting the Legislature, and appointing in whose hands it shall be. And when the people have said we will submit...
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A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy: In the Case ...

John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - Ireland - 1844 - 1008 pages
...being but a delegated power from the people, they " who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can " appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the " Legislature, and appointing in whose hands that shall be ; and when " the people will have said,...
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Court of Queen's Bench Ireland: A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment ...

Daniel O'Connell - Ireland - 1844 - 1016 pages
...being but a delegated power from the people, they " who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the Legislature, and appointing in whose hands that shall be ; and when the people will have said, we submit...
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