 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 742 pàgines
...not, and was not meant to be ; and the Constitution opens with a formal refutation of the error : • We, the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.' It is v with this express annunciation of the Constitution, not... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 988 pàgines
...States; but, on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, «• We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United Stiles of America " The principle here established is, that the government created by... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 pàgines
...compact or contract agreed to by two or more parties, to be construed by each for itself, and here to stop for the want of a common arbiter to revise the...constitution,' and not, we, the people of each state." 3 Andthis expo- 1 • 1 Rawle on the Constitution, ch. 32, p. 295, 296, 297, 302, 305. 2 Dane's App.... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pàgines
...compact or contract agreed to by two or more parties, to be construed by each for itself, and here to stop for the want of a common arbiter to revise the...this constitution,' and not, we, the people of each state."3 Andthis expo1 Rawle on the Constitution, ch. 32, p. 295, 296, 297, 302, 305. 2 Dune's A pp.... | |
 | 1833 - 574 pàgines
...itself, and there to stop for want of a common arbiter to revise the construction of each party or State. It is, as the people have named, and called it, truly...Constitution, and not We, the People of each State.'* This passage is quoted and adopted by Story, who also says that, ' A government may originate in the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 pàgines
...States had 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 words must cease to be part of the constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1833 - 636 pàgines
...States; but on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, " We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of 'America." The principle here established is, that the Government created... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1833 - 106 pàgines
...had 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 WOrds HlUSt cease to be a part of the Constitution—they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - 1834 - 404 pàgines
...States; but on the contrary, it is declared to be the act of the American people. The language is, "We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The principle here established is, that the government created by... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 pàgines
...the national character upon it from the very outset, the preamble begins with these remarkable words. "We, the people of the United States . . . .... do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." Thus excluding the idea of a mere confederation of independent communities,... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 
