...view of this matter to tell us frankly whether they do or do not assent to Mr. Jefferson's statement in the Declaration of Independence that governments 'derive their just powers from the consent of the governed ; and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these...

...said: "We have repeatedly said, andweonco more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just; and that, if the slave states, the cotton states, or...

...thev will make in their constitution will be to repudiate formally the now exploded doctrine laid down in the Declaration of Independence, that ' Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' The point of view from which the Southerners undertook the war cannot...

...1861: "We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just ; and that, if the slave States, the cotton States,...

...will make in their constitution will be to repudiate formally the now exploded doctrine laid down 1 in the Declaration of Independence, that ' Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' Tho point of view from which the Southerners undertook the war cannot...

...United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." This is in accordance with the sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"—a sentiment which, though true as it regards the medium, is most untrue...

...all free government — the principle that the will of the people is the supreme law, or as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, that " governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," and in our own Bill of Rights, that " all power is vested in and consequently...

...entering into society, the individual comes under no new obligation, and gives up no right. It is said in the Declaration of Independence, that " Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." If, as most have supposed, this refers to the foundation of government,...

...Constitutions is strongly demanded, to the removal of every barrier, in accordance with that pregnant postulate in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. In two of the Territories the polls are opened to both sexes. In Great...

...: "We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just, and that if the slave States, the cotton States, or...