 Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in working the great machine of government erected for their...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4971872Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...respectful acceptance ; and this his Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people,...and, consequently, subject to their superintendence ; and, in order that these, our rights, as well as the invasions of them, may be laid more fully before... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pages
...as the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws and circumscribed with definitive power, to assist in working the great machine of government,...and consequently subject to their superintendence. He reminded him, that our ancestors had been British freemen, that they had acquired their settlements... | |
 | Nicholas Biddle - 1827 - 62 pages
...more than the chief officer of the " people, appointed by the laws and circumscribed with " definitive powers to assist in working the great machine " of...consequently " subject to their superintendence." The wrongs of the colonies are then recapitulated in a strain of eloquent boldness, till kindling with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...more respectful acceptance; and this his Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people,...and, consequently, subject to their superintendence; and, in order that these, our rights, as well as the invasions of them, may be laid more fully before... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 526 pages
...respectful acceptance ; and this his Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people,...machine of government, erected for their use, and, consequendy, subject to their superintendence ; and, in order that these, our rights, as well as the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definile powers, to assist in working the great machine of...and, consequently, subject to their superintendence; and, in order that these, our rights, as well as the invasions of them, may be laid more fully before... | |
 | Statesmen - 1829 - 432 pages
...more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definitive powers, to assist in working the great machine of...and consequently subject to their superintendence." The wrongs of the colonies are then recapitulated in a strain of eloquent boldness, till kindling with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to assist in workins the great machine of government, erected for their...and, consequently, subject to their superintendence; and, in order that those, our rights, as well as the invasions of them, may be laid more fully before... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1830 - 488 pages
...respectful acceptance ; and this his Majesty will think we have reason to expect, when he reflects that lie is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed...and, consequently, subject to their superintendence ; and in order that these, our rights, as well as the invasions of them, may be laid more fully before... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...the people^ as a right which they derive from God, and not from His Majesty ; who, he boldly affirms, 'is no more than the chief officer of the people,...and consequently subject to their superintendence.' He next proceeds to vindicate the right of expatriation, showing that the barbarian nations in the... | |
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