...Confederation, and by the inherent rights of political society. The words of the Constitution are, " We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution." The States, as States, are not parties to the contract. The people created the State Constitutions,...

...Confederation, and by the inherent rights of political society. The words of the Constitution are, " We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution." The States, as States, are not parties to the contract- The people created the State Constitutions,...

...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...

...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...

...pronouns are sometimes used in apposition for the purpose of identifying the person of a noun ; as, " We, for the United States of America." Note VII. — A proper name is often placed after a common name...

...respectively, or to the people." Hence the emphatic language by which it was proclaimed, that " we the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution," etc. Now, Sir, it is surely unnecessary to show by argument that the Constitution, thus adopted by...

...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...

...can any man get over the words of the constitution itself? — " We, the people of the United Slates, do ordain and establish this constitution.'" These words must cease to be part of the constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment on which they are written, before...

...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,...

...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 Church government. One man,...