...oxymoronic: "[W]henever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." 20 The legitimacy of a government itself became a contested question in the Revolution. At the national...

...Wherefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the...and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish :\ new government ; the doctrine of non resistance to arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish...

...Rights make sense only in the context of history. A universal favorite is the language that says that "the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." The governor and General Assembly who thought it meant that Tennessee could secede from the Union found...

...liberties of their people .... [My constituents and I] live under a constitution which teaches us that "the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary...slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."41 In the tradition of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, representatives of various New...

...Section 2. Doctrine of nonresistance condemned. That government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. The right to privacy, or personal autonomy ("the right to be left alone"), while not mentioned explicitly...

...owners." Yet the new constitution's declaration of rights said that "the doctrine of non-resistant against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd,...slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."311 Like their colleagues in Cincinnati, Ohio, local free Negroes appeared to be suspicious...

...constitutions, as those of Maryland and Tennessee, contained the words, "The doctrine of non-resistance to oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." Yet, he said, this was not his opinion and he could but reiterate his belief in the evil of violence...

...Constitution, Amendments. I- IX, Tennessee Conslitulion: "Government being instituted for the common benefit, the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power...slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of humankind." .Art. I, § 2. " .The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable...

...oxymoronic: "[W]henever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the...slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."20 The legitimacy of a government itself became a contested question in the Revolution. At...

...guaranteeing that "whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the...to reform the old or establish a new government"; it then denounced the doctrine of nonresistance. Less emphatically, the preamble to the 1780 Massachusetts...