 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 776 pages
...because it rested on the will of the people. Patrick Henry, the ablest Anti-Federalist, exclaimed: "Who authorized them to speak the language of "We. the people; instead of, We, th€ Statesf" (3) The Constitution contained no bill of rights (see). The Federalists met these arguments... | |
 | Frederick Bertrand Robinson - Oratory - 1915 - 486 pages
...give be leave to demand what right had they to say ' ' We, the People, ' ' instead of We, the States? 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... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...Constitution]; but, Sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people 1 My poli tical curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for...public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to say, We, tlie people, instead of We, the States t States are the characteristics and the soul of a... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - Law - 2008 - 121 pages
...thundered over the Virginia convention sitting in Richmond: [W]hat right had they to say. We, the People"? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorised them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States! States are the... | |
 | John Forester - Philosophy - 1987 - 364 pages
...right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for public welfare, leads me to ask: who authorized them...the language of We, the people, instead of, We, the states?"26 Ultimately this inversion of the republican ideal of federalism into a unit of liberal pluralism... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - Law - 1989 - 316 pages
...ratification of the Constitution in the Virginia debates: [Wjhat 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... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1992 - 322 pages
...after Henry opened the case for the opposition on June 4 with his famous attack upon the Constitution: "Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of We, the states?" 39 Randolph led the answer for the Federalists. Randolph's desertion led the Antifederalists to assert... | |
 | Edward Watts - History - 1998 - 246 pages
...essentially an act of misrepresentation and appropriation: "What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...authorized them to speak the language of We, the people?" (122). Even though the ratifying convention had been specifically elected for that purpose, Henry objects... | |
 | Andr s Saj¢ - Political Science - 1999 - 312 pages
...right to ask at the ratifying convention in Virginia: "What right had they to say, We, the people: .. .Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of We, the states': .. .The people gave them no power to use their name."20 In all likelihood the American framing process... | |
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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.... 
