 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 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... | |
 | William Wirt - United States - 1845 - 314 pages
...for those gentlemen: but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, we, the people ? "My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...language of, we, the people, instead of, we, the. statr.t ? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the... | |
 | William Wirt - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1850 - 314 pages
...gentlemen : but. sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, we, the people ? "My politteal curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for...language of, we, the people, instead of, we, the states 7 States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents... | |
 | Literature - 1854 - 748 pages
...give me leave to demand, what right have they to say, we the people f" " Who authorized them to apeak 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, comolidated,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, " We, the People ? " and experie a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, " We, the People ? " My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...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... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 618 pages
...those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, " We, the People ? " ies of internal and external enemies will be most...covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | William B. Victor - United States - 1859 - 254 pages
...nullification by the States. Mr. Henry had thus expressed one of his objections to the Constitution : " My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...to ask who authorized them to speak the language, We, the people, instead of We, the States. States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation.... | |
 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1863 - 712 pages
...gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, lWe, the people?' My poh'tical curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for...? 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1861 - 684 pages
...for those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people ? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states ? I States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents... | |
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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.... 
