 | Stephen Cullen Carpenter - History - 1815 - 514 pages
...the question with more than ordinary earnestness, who authorized them to speak such language as " WE THE PEoPLE," instead of" WE THE STATES?" — States...national government of the people of all the states. With respect to the gentlemen who formed the con•vention, I must repeat, sir, that I entertain the... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 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 are the...soul of a confederation. If the States be not the scents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated rational Government of the people of all... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 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 are...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... | |
 | 1830 - 584 pages
...instead of we, the States. States are the characteristics and soul of a confederacy. If the States he not the agents of this compact, it must be one great...national government of the people of all the States." Or, what is still more important, in the words of Mr. Madison, in reply to this question, "who are... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1832 - 756 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 are the characteristics and soul of a confederation." Mr. Pfndleton. " Hut an objection is made to the form; the expression ' we... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...[is] ' We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the stales.' States are the characteristics and soul of n confederation. If the states be not the agents of...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 - 1833 - 564 pages
...The language [is] ' We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the statts? States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this co.npact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states." The... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1836 - 692 pages
...thf langiiggp of, We, the people, instead of, We, the style*?- States are the characteristics arid the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must bo one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states. I have the highest... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...they had to say " we the people," instead of " we the States." If the States are not the agents of the compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the States. The people gave them no power to use their name : " The federal convention ought to have amended the... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1861 - 992 pages
...People? — Who authorized them to speak the language, «v>, the People, instead of we, itie States f States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation....consolidated national government of the people of the States." And what said Edmund Randolph in reply ? " The gentleman inquires why we assumed the language... | |
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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. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national... 
