 We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.' The people do ordain and establish, not contract and stipulate with each other. The people of the United States, not the distinct people...  American Quarterly Review - Side 333redigert av - 1838Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 494 sider
...not and was not meant to be, and the constitution opens with a formal refutation of this error. « We, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, do ordain and establish this constitution, for the United States of America' It is with this express annunciation of the constitution, not as the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 988 sider
...States; but, on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, «• We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United Stiles of America " The principle here established is, that the government created by that... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 sider
...emphatically speaks of it, aa a solemn ordinance and establishment of government.The language is, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and...particular state with the people of the other states. The people ordain and establish a " constitution" not a "confederation" The distinction between a constitution... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1833 - 106 sider
...had entered into. Finally, sir, how can any man get over the words of the Constitution itself?—"WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION." These WOrds HlUSt cease to be a part of the Constitution—they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - 1834 - 404 sider
...States; but on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, "We the people of the United States do ordain and...Constitution for the United States of America." The principle here established is, that the government created by that Constitution is the act of the people... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - 1834 - 396 sider
...States ; but on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, "We the people of the United States do ordain and...Constitution for the United States of America." The principle here established is, that the government created by that Constitution is the act of the people... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 sider
...the national character upon it from the very outset, the preamble begins with these remarkable words. "We, the people of the United States . . . .... do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." Thus excluding the idea of a mere confederation of independent communities,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 810 sider
...had entered into. Finally, sir, how can any man get over the words of the constitution itself?—" We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." These words must cease to be a part of the constitution—• they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 sider
...United States ? Finally, Sir, how can any man get over the words of the Constitution itself?—"WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION." TllCSC Words must cease to be a part of the Constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1836 - 108 sider
...and made them declare the Constitution to be their own work—speaking in the first person and saying We the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America—and then the allegation of motives—to form a more perfect union, to... | |
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