 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...Virginia in the Federal Convention] : but, sir, give me leave to demand what right had they to say, ' 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 is one great consolidated,... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 596 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... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 594 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...characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If theJSfotes be nol^the agents of this compact, it must.be one .great consolidated national govern^ mpjf.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 720 pages
...solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, 1 We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the States ?' States...one . great, consolidated, National Government, of all the States !"* Edmund Pendleton, President of the Convention, answered : " ' We, the people,' possessing... | |
 | Law - 1864 - 426 pages
...the people themselves."! " Who authorised them," cried Patrick Henry, " to speak the language of ' we, the people,' instead of we, the States ? States are the characteristics and source of a confederation. If the States are not the agents of the compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1872 - 292 pages
...Government is demonstrably clear; and the danger of such a government is to my mind very striking. ... If the States be not the Agents of this compact, it...Consolidated, National Government of the people of the States. ... I need not take much pains to show that the principles of this system, ie, the system... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - History - 1867 - 582 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." So, in the North Carolina Convention, Mr. Taylor said : — " This is a consolidation of all the States.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...The language [is] ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States.' States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the...consolidated national government of the people of all the b'-arts." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other States.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...Henry said, " That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear." " The language [is] * 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... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - Civilization - 1874 - 434 pages
...Convention," he demanded, " to speak the language of, 4 We, the people,' instead of 4 We, the States ' ? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...national government of the people of all the States." This interpretation was true. Yet how strange that such men as Patrick Henry, Jefferson, and other... | |
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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.... 
