...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...

...Mr. Webster says : " 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 words must cease to be a part of the Constitution ; they must be obliterated from the parchment...

...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...

...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...

...power higher than the people. The preamble ignores and repudiates any higher power. Its language is, " We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." This is in accordance with the sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, that "governments derive...

...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...

...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,...

...but, without an adjunct, no comma is required ; as, Homer, the greatest poet of antiquity, was blind. We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. The twin sisters, Piety and Poetry, are wont to dwell together. The island of Mona, now Anglesea, was...

...Resolution, the simple language of the Constitution in proclaiming its. origin in its first words, 'WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES,' 'DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,' does, of itself, imply, what is so precisely specified in the added...

...sovereign State making a compact called a Constitution. The veryjangungc of the Constitution is decisive: 'We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.' The States did not make a compact to be broken wbcn any one pleased, but the people ordained and established...