 | Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 336 pages
...sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say-" We the people? Who authorized them to say 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,... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...shows Mr. Henry's idea to be perfectly correct. Mr. Henry thus put it, "My political curiosity * * * leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language...of ' We, the People,' instead of ' We, the States ' * * * jj? the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated 1 The American... | |
 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1863 - 728 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...language of We, the people, instead of We, the States f States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention, William Blair Lord, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - Constitutional conventions - 1864 - 744 pages
...for these 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...to speak the language of We, the people, instead of TFe, the State? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...the Constitution]; but, Sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people t My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to say, We, the people, instead of We, the States t States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...the Constitution]; but, Sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say. We, the people t My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to say, We, the people, instead of We, tiie States T States are the characteristics and the soul of a... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...the Constitution] ; but, Sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people ? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude...welfare, leads me to ask, W^ho authorized them to say, We, the people, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation.... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...Virginia in the Federal Convention] : but, sir, give me leave to demand what right had they to say, ' 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 is one great consolidated,... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - Political Science - 1867 - 596 pages
...for those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right they had 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... | |
 | John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 568 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 f States are the characteristics, the soul of the Confederation. If the states be not the agents of... | |
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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.... 
