 | John Alexander Jameson - 1887 - 730 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry - 1887 - 312 Seiten
...should be observed that the source of power is here perfectly authoritative, being the people: "We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." The language is explicit and peremptory: "ordain and establish." It is definite in regard to the subject:... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1888 - 878 Seiten
...honorable delegate to the late convention with exultation and applause; but when it is declared that "We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this constitution," is not the very foundation a proof of a consolidated government, by the manifest subversion of the... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1889 - 308 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - 1889 - 796 Seiten
...states, but by the people, and is therefore the fundamental law of the people. Its language is, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." Being the fundamental law, there can be no law or act of any state superior to it, else it would not... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 Seiten
...defense, binding themselves to assist each other." But in making the constitution 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 with... | |
 | John Jay - 1793 - 528 Seiten
...proper sovereignty ; and, conscious of the plentitude 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,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1890 - 166 Seiten
...thirteen States to the number of nine or more, as shall ratify this Constitution, being exclusively the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for such States exclusively, as the United States of America. Such amplification of the terms of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1268 Seiten
...government with powers derived directly from the people, and the Constitution's preamble provides that "We the People of the United States... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (A Lee from the Virginia family contended bitterly that it should... | |
 | David P. Currie - 1992 - 518 Seiten
...its methodology to the cases . 11U.S. CONST, amend. VIII. nld., art. II, § 1. "Id. , preamble: "We, the People of the United States, ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 14Easterbrook, Substance and Due Process, 1982 SUP. CT. REV. 85,... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 
