 ... inquire whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every part, during the last septenary (including the year of their service) ; and whether the legislative and executive branches of government have performed their duty, as guardians...  The Congressional Globe ... - Seite 75von United States. Congress - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1917 - 690 Seiten
...government have performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the constitution." Most of the State constitutions have provisions for calling conventions to consider changes, but it... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - 1947 - 460 Seiten
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 | Chilton Williamson - 1949 - 364 Seiten
...government have performed their duty as guardians of the people; or assumed to themselves, or exercised other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution." 26 In short, the Vermont Constitution, unlike New York's, was representative of the most advanced social... | |
 | James Madison - 1953 - 394 Seiten
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 | 1894 - 460 Seiten
...constitutional conventions when they thought proper. " They are also to inquire," continues the article, " whether the public taxes have been justly laid and collected in all parts of this commonwealth—in what manner the public moneys have been disposed of—and whether th,e laws have... | |
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