 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1889 - 308 pages
...the people, instead of We, the States i States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederacy. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...national government of the people of all the States' The counsel for Virginia relied much on ;he Eleventh Amendment.1 But the Chief-Justice replied that... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1889 - 800 pages
...the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If states were not to be the agents of this new compact it must be one great, consolidated, national government of the people of all the states. This perilous innovation, altogether beyond the powers of the Convention which had proposed it, had... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - Virginia - 1890 - 406 pages
...the language of ' We, the People ' instead oi ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the...of this compact, it must be one great consolidated Government of the people of all the States. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - Constitutions - 1890 - 410 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 soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1891 - 684 pages
...solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, He, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...of ' We, the States.' iStala are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If tho States bo not the agents of this compact, it must be one great...national government of the people of all the States." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other States. See 1... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...Heury said, "That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear." " The language [is] ' Wo, the people,' instead of ' We, the States.' [States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
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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.... 
