 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 604 pages
...speaking of the framers of the Constitution : " Who authorized them to speak the language of 'We, tJie 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,... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - History - 1904 - 522 pages
...Government. ' ' Give me leave to inquire," said Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, "who authorised them to speak the language of 'We, the people,' instead...' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation." "I stumble at the threshold," said Samuel Adams, on first reading the document. "I... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - History - 1904 - 562 pages
...Government. ' ' Give me leave to inquire," said Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, "who authorised them to speak the language of 'We, the people,' instead...'? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. " "I stumble at the threshold, ' ' said Samuel Adams, on first reading the document.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1905 - 390 pages
...have a reason for his conduct." "What right," he exclaimed, "had they to say, We, the people? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states?" He declared that the Constitution established a consolidated government, and that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - History - 1905 - 396 pages
...Mujurlty [ | Efcnly Olrldcd i '... ft CO . right," he exclaimed, "had they to say, We, the people? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states?" He declared that the Constitution established a consolidated government, and that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...up frequently. Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, June 4, 1788, declared: '''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 the compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - Presidents - 1906 - 190 pages
...who exclaimed in the Virginia Convention of 1788, when speaking of the framers of the Constitution: "Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We,...' ? 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,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...up frequently. Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, June 4, 1788, declared: "'We the People'? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who 172 authorized them to speak the language of, 'We the People,' instead of We the States? States are... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1909 - 520 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...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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...they to say, ' We, the People '? . . . Who 20. PL Ford, Writings of Jefferson, IV, 474-476. authorizes them to speak the language of We, the People, instead...We, the States? States are the characteristics and soul of confederation. If the States be not agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated,... | |
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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.... 
