Conventions Quote by Carol Bellamy

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal…

— Mary Robinson

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will…

— Jefferson Davis

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

— Jamie Dimon

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

You make government number one, and people give up their rights.

— Beneil Dariush

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Cory Doctorow

Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" -…

— Thomas I. Emerson