| Daniel Webster - 1858 - 564 Seiten
...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 WOl'ds must cease to be a part of the Constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment on... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...pronouns are sometimes used in apposition for the purpose of identifying the person of a noun ; as, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Note VII. — A proper name is often placed after a common name... | |
| 1859 - 830 Seiten
...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... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - 1861 - 1100 Seiten
...alone without care and without occupation : The Constitution was adopted ly the united people — "We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution." (1) The powers with which it vests the General Government are sovereign^ and there can be but one sovereign... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1861 - 876 Seiten
...The emphatic language of its preamble speaks the sentiments of the Fathers who established it : " We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for tha United States of America." It can be regarded in no other light than as a "fundamental law... | |
| Abel Parker Upshur - 1863 - 188 Seiten
...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 establish this Constitution for the United States of America." " The people do ordain and establish, not contract and stipulate... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1864 - 716 Seiten
...then the constitution of the United States is void for the same cause ; for its first words are, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution ;" and the bequest to the Smithsonian Institute is also void, for that bequest is " to the people of... | |
| Tayler Lewis - 1864 - 100 Seiten
...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 onr posterity." There spoke this one ancient indivisible sovereignty in peaceful... | |
| 1865 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 Seiten
...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... | |
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