| Andrew White Young - 1840 - 348 Seiten
...present constitution, is briefly expressed in the preamble : " We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this constitution." The confederation was a union between the states. The states were parties to the contract. But the... | |
| Andrew White Young - 1839 - 384 Seiten
...present constitution, is briefly expressed in the preamble : " We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this constitution." The confederation was a union between the states. The states were parties to the contract. But the... | |
| Horace Mann - 1850 - 36 Seiten
...States " — not the people of the territories, nor the people of the States and territories — " in order to form a more perfect Union "-—"do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." If the Constitution is a compact between the United States and the territories,... | |
| Horace Mann - 1851 - 592 Seiten
...clause, or phrase, or word, which shows that the constitution is any thing but a compact between stales ? Where do they find any thing that shows it to be a...territories, — " in order to form a more perfect Union," — " do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." If the constitution... | |
| Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 Seiten
...States," — not the people of the territories, nor the people of the states and territories, — " in order to form a more perfect Union," — " do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." If the constitution is a compact between the United States and the territories,... | |
| 1862 - 602 Seiten
...thus formed ? The preamble of the Constitution declares that ' We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.' But the people here spoken of were not the people taken as one whole,... | |
| 1862 - 628 Seiten
...thus formed? The preamble of the Constitution declares that ' We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.' But the people here spoken of were not the people taken as one whole,... | |
| 1863 - 858 Seiten
...Constitution is not a federal compact, because it commences thus : " We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." They contend that this is an act of the " whole people of the Union... | |
| Fitzwilliam Sargent - 1863 - 140 Seiten
...notwithstanding. The preamble of this Constitution expressly declares, " We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this Constitution," &c.; " more perfect" than what ? more perfect than the old " Articles of Confederation," which themselves... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1866 - 296 Seiten
...of tftr f<mtlU<iticm. 2. The Language of the Constitution. "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The first clause of this preamble to the Constitution, wholly detached... | |
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