 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
 | William Cabell Rives - 1870 - 692 sider
...undisciplined militia." To the argument drawn by Mr. Henry from the preamble of the Constitution,— "We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution," — and the changes he so repeatedly rang upon it, to prove that the scheme proposed was a consolidated... | |
 | 1872 - 236 sider
...see what it teaches on this question. The first declaration referring to this is in the preamble: " We, the people of the United States," * * * "do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION." There is here no allusion to any authority above " the people," under whose auspices, by whose permission,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1872 - 292 sider
...entered into. " Finally, sir, how can any man get over the words of the Constitution itself? 'TF«, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 1 These words must cease to be a part of the Constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 582 sider
...proper sovereignty ; and, conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared with becoming dignity, l We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution.' Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country, and, in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 sider
...that it is, as the people have named and called it, truly a Constitution ; and they properly said, 4 We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution/ and not we, the people of each State." 2 And this exposition has been sustained by opinions of some... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1873 - 1316 sider
...of the Constitution of the Vnited States. Do we see any such surplusage as that? Not at all. "\Vc, the people of the United States," * * "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the I'nited States of America;" not "for the future." Now, why insert words entirely uncalled for and... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1874 - 412 sider
...separate and equal station to which they were entitled. The Constitution speaks the same language : " We, the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." But the Articles of Confederation do not purport to come from the people.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 666 sider
...own proper sovereignty, and, conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared with becoming dignity, 'We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.' Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country ; and in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | 1877 - 510 sider
...mean, they were one civil body politic. But a little care in investigation will dispel all dou bt. " We, the people of the United States " * * » " do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Let us seek the meaning of the terms, "United States," and " United... | |
 | John Randolph Tucker - 1877 - 96 sider
...to mean, they were one civil body politic. But a little care in investigation will dispel all doubt. "We. the people of the United States" * * * "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Let us seek the meaning of the terms, "United States," and " United... | |
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