 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1877 - 1208 pages
...just power from the consent of the governed." The very highest duty of the States when they entered the Union under the constitution was to protect all...for this purpose rests alone with the States."— United States vs. Cruikshank, 93 US, 553. This " highest duty of the States1' must be performed by... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under...within their boundaries in the enjoyment of these " unalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator." Sovereignty, for this purpose,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under...within their boundaries in the enjoyment of these " unalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator." Sovereignty, for this purpose,... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1876 - 764 pages
...instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States when they entered into the Union under...Constitution was to protect all persons within their bounderies in the enjoyment of these ' inalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator.'... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1878 - 914 pages
...just power from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States when they entered the Union under the constitution was to protect all...Sovereignty for this purpose rests alone with the States '' — United States vs. Cruikshank, 92 US, 553. This '• highest duty of the State " must he performed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...state power. As said in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US 553, 23 L. Ed. 588: "The very highest duty of the states when they entered Into the Union under...persons within their boundaries in the enjoyment of those unalieuable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator. In these respects, as regards... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1881 - 674 pages
...instituted among men, deriving their just powere from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under...for this purpose rests alone with the States. It is no more the duty, or within the power, of the United States to punish for a conspiracy to falsely imprison... | |
 | David Dudley Field - Law - 1884 - 532 pages
...instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under...for this purpose rests alone with the States. It is no more the duty, or within the power, of the United States to punish for a conspiracy to falsely imprison... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...uflder the constitution, was to protect ill persons within their boundaries in the enjoyment of those inalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator. Sovereignty for this purpos« rests alone with.the states." Waite, C. J., US r. Cruikshank, 92 US 542. Mr. Win. Rawle, the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The very highest duty of the states, when they entered into the Union under...within their boundaries in the enjoyment of these " unalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator." Sovereignty, for this purpose,... | |
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The rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man. " To secure these rights," says the Declaration of Independence, " governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 
