 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 384 páginas
...is demonstrably clear Give me leave to demand, 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 ? .... If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated National... | |
 | Charles Freeman Libby - 1901 - 46 páginas
...have the highest veneration for those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, ' We the people ' ? My political curiosity,...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 464 páginas
...highest veneration for those gentlemen; but, sir, give me leave to demand what right had they to say, tt We, the People " ? My political curiosity, exclusive...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... | |
 | Bar Association of St. Louis - 1901 - 110 páginas
...before? — when Patrick Henry, speaking of the framers of the Constitution, passionately demanded, — "Who authorized them to speak the language of We,...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... | |
 | James Alton James - 1901 - 420 páginas
...those gentlemen ; but sir, give me leave to demand, 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 ? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, National government,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 724 páginas
...began further back than Nicholas and attacked the preamble. Who authorized the Convention, he inquired, to speak the language of "we the people" instead of "we the States ?" States were the characteristic and soul of the Confederation. If they were not the agents of the new compact... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 862 páginas
...began further back than Nicholas and attacked the preamble. Who authorized the Convention, he inquired, to speak the language of "we the people" instead of "we the States ?" States were the characteristic and soul of the Confederation. If they were not the agents of the new compact... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 458 páginas
...I have the highest veneration for those gentlemen; but, sir, give me leave to demand what right had they to say, "We, the People"? My political curiosity,..."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... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 618 páginas
...exclaimed in the Virginia Convention of 1788, when speaking of the framers of the Constitution : " Who authorized them to speak the language of 'We,...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,... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1903 - 288 páginas
...gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand 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 ? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government... | |
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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.... 
