 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 532 pages
...constitution is a severance of the confederacy. Its language, '"WE THE PEOPLE,' is the institution of one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states, instead of a government by compact with the states for its agents. The people gave the convention no... | |
 | Alabama State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1078 pages
...anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of 'we the people'' instead of 'we the States?' States are the characteristics and the soul of the Confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Biography - 1884 - 400 pages
...solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States ' ? States...national government, of the people of all the States. Have they said, ' We, the States ' ? Have they made a proposal of a compact between States ? If they... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...constitution is a severance of the confederacy. Its language, ' WE THE PEOPLE,' is the institution of one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states, instead of a government by compact with the states for its agents. The people gave the convention no... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 pages
...constitution is a severance of the confederacy. Its language, ' WE THE PEOPLE,' is the institution of one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states, instead of a government by compact with the states for its agents. The people gave the convention no... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 190 pages
...solicitude for the public welfare, lead's me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, " We, the People," instead of We, the States ? States...national government of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention ; and were some of them not... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Constitutional conventions - 1887 - 726 pages
...anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, We the people, instead of, We the States ? States...national government of the people of all the States." try ? . . . I am astonished, that the servants of the legislature of North Carolina should go to Philadelphia... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1887 - 364 pages
...they to say, ' We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristic and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it is one great consolidated, national government of the people of all the States." Governor Henry's voice... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1887 - 376 pages
...characteristic and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it is one great consolidated, national government of the people of all the States." Governor Henry's voice was that of James Monroe, and formulated the political creed of what was yet... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 pages
...anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of We the People, instead of We the States? States are...national government of the people of all the States." On the following day, June 5, 1788, Patrick Henry reiterated and enforced the argument which he had... | |
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My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation.... 
