...unfounded, but to be utterly absurd. Thirteenth. " The Constitution of the United States alleges that we, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution; the discipline affirms that Mr. Wesley preferred the Episcopal mode of Chinch government. One man,...

...themselves consummated the federative bond, in that memorable enacting formula of our Constitution :—" We the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States 'of America." It was the first federative union in history which had been formed...

...course, members of the United States government, by its adoption. The constitution itself declares, that "We, the people of the United States, * * do ordain and establish this constitution." The term " people," of necessity, includes the whole people ; no exception being made, none can be...

...had entered into. Finally, Sir, how can EBiy 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...

...themselves. The emphatic language of its preamble spcak'i the sentiments of the Fathers who established it: " We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Corustilution for the United States'of America." It can be regarded in no other light than as a "fundamental...

...States as such, is founded exclusively on the particular terms of the preamble. The language is, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and...particular State with the people of the other States." In thus relying on the language of the preamble, the author rejects the lights of history altogether....

...union, as all alike one harmonious indivisible work proceeding from one and the same working power. " We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for ourselves and our posterity." There spoke this one ancient indivisible sovereignty in peaceful convention;...

...granted shall be vested in a congress," &c. If it be asked, who are the grantors? The preamble answers "we the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution," &c. Not we the states, or we the people of the several states, but, we the people of the entire United...

...granted shall be vested in a congress," &c. If it be asked, who are the grantors ? The preamble answers "we the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution," &c. Not we the states, or we the people of the several states, but, we the people of the entire United...

...says nothing whatever about the * Elliot's Debates, iii. 72. States acting as States. It declares, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Nothing is found in any part of the Constitution making mention of a...