 | James Alton James - Local government - 1901 - 412 pages
...people ? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We the people, instead of, We the States ? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...National government, of the people of all the States." It was argued, on the other hand, by Randolph, Madison, and others, that the government under the Articles... | |
 | Bar Association of St. Louis - Judges - 1901 - 110 pages
...framers of the Constitution, passionately demanded, — "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 confederacy. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national... | |
 | Roland Greene Usher - History - 1914 - 440 pages
...government is demonstrably clear; and the danger of such a government is, to my mind, very striking. . . . States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation....national government, of the people of all the States." Elliott's Debates, III, 21, 22. As a national government, Henry opposed it. more than remodel the old... | |
 | Edward Samuel Corwin - Constitutional history - 1914 - 204 pages
...456-7. they to say 'We the people' . . . instead of 'We the States' ? States are the characteristic and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the...national government of the people of all the States. . . . The people gave them no power to use their name. That they exceeded their power is perfectly... | |
 | Frederick Bertrand Robinson - Oratory - 1915 - 486 pages
...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...national government of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention; and were some of them not... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...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...national government of the people of all the states.* I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the Convention; and were some of them not... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1915 - 250 pages
...Constitution was well founded; and he added, "States are the characteristic and soul of a confederacy. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated government of the people of the United States." He insisted that it would be so. But Patrick Henry,... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1915 - 726 pages
...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 soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 382 pages
...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...national government of the people of all the States. ... I wish to hear the real, actual, existing danger, which should lead us to take those steps so dangerous... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 856 pages
...government is, to my mind, very striking. . . . Who authorized them (the framers) to speak the language of we the people, instead of we the States? States are...national government of the people of all the States." Such was his clear discernment of the real nature of the government established by the Constitution... | |
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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.... 
