 | Robert James Turnbull - State rights - 1827 - 174 pages
...State Governments, as he also terms them, essentially, as the State Sovereignties. His words are " The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity,...and thus submitting that instrument to the people. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived by the State Governments. The Constitution,... | |
 | 1828 - 638 pages
...and is declared to be ord:iined ' in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of...their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a conrention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty... | |
 | John Hohnes - 1833 - 682 pages
...establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity.' The assent of the States, in their...capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting1 that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to acceptor reject... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...people ; and is declared to be ordained in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity." — Wheaton's Rep. vol. 4, p. 403. The same principles are recognized as being true in the late admirable... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 788 pages
...justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity, did ordain and solemnly adopt a Constitution for the United States. " This Government, the offspring... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...and established' in the name of the people, and is declared to be ordained in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice^ insure domestic...secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity.'' " The assent of the States in their- sovereign capacity is implied in calling a... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...distinguished man, Chief Justice Marshall in the case of McCulloch vs. Maryland, when he says that " the assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity...instrument to the people" — " but the people were at liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance and could... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...people; and is declared to be ordained, 'in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of...assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, i is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1845 - 1062 pages
...made a Constitution, in their own imperishable Ianguage, " in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and...secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity." These declared objects ot those who made the Constitution are especially worthy of... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...government proceeds directly from the people ; is ordained and established in the name of the people ; — the assent of the states in their sovereign capacity...implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting the constitution to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and... | |
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We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves... 
