 | Stephen Cullen Carpenter - 1815 - 514 strani
...put the question with more than ordinary earnestness, who authorized them to speak such language as " WE THE PEoPLE," instead of" WE THE STATES?" — States...national government of the people of all the states. With respect to the gentlemen who formed the con•vention, I must repeat, sir, that I entertain the... | |
 | 1833 - 670 strani
...curiosity, exclusive of ray anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of we the people, instead of...soul of a confederation. If the States be not the scents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated rational Government of the people of all... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1832 - 756 strani
...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...'we the States?' States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation." Mr. PeniUeton. "Hut an objection is made to the form; the expression ' we... | |
 | 1827 - 532 strani
...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...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... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 552 strani
...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 this compact, it must be one great consolidated government of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed... | |
 | 1830 - 584 strani
...instead of we, the States. States are the characteristics and soul of a confederacy. If the States he not the agents of this compact, it must be one great...national government of the people of all the States." Or, what is still more important, in the words of Mr. Madison, in reply to this question, "who are... | |
 | William Wirt - 1833 - 486 strani
...solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, ice, the people, instead of, we, the states ? States are...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 strani
...[is] ' We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the stales.' States are the characteristics and soul of n confederation. If the states be not the agents of...national government of the people of all the states." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other states. See 1... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 strani
...The language [is] ' We, the people,' instead of, ' We, the statts? States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this co.npact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states." The... | |
 | William Wirt - 1834 - 482 strani
...welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized then to speak the language of, we, the people, instead of, ice, the. states ? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the slates be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national, government... | |
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People"? 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.... 
