 | Caleb William Loring - Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 - 1893 - 218 pages
...convention, objected because the Constitution said " We, the people," instead of" We, the States " ; and if the States be not the agents of this compact, it...national government of the people of all the States."' 1 2 Elliot, 526. ' 3 Elliot, 23. " It had an awful squinting towards monarchy." " The federal convention... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 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... | |
 | Orators - 1899 - 500 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. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention ; and were some of them not... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 500 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 ? "...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Grady - Secession - 1899 - 488 pages
...and demanded to know why it said " We, the people" instead of "We, the States." "If," he continued, "the States be not the agents of this Compact, it...be one great, consolidated, National Government of all the States." But the "secret proceedings," afterwards published, showed that the final draft of... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 460 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. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention; and were some of them not... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
.... . . Who authorized them to speak the language of We, the people, instead of We, the States ? .... If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...National government of the people of all the States." 1 Then again the same fervid orator declared, with infinite point, "The question turns, Sir, on that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 464 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 " ?...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... | |
 | Charles Freeman Libby - Judges - 1901 - 46 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... | |
 | J. A. JAMES PH.D., A. H. SANFORD, M.A. - 1901 - 468 pages
...people ? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We the people, instead of, We the States? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...National government, of the people of all the States." It was argued, on the other hand, by Randolph, Madison, and others, that the government tinder the... | |
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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.... 
