 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 742 pages
...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 as the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 446 pages
...that it is, as the people have named and called it, truly a constitution ; and they properly said " we, the people of the United States" " do ordain and establish this constitution," and not we, the people of each state. If a contract, when and how did the Union become a party to it... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 988 pages
...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 that... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1833 - 636 pages
...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 that... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 564 pages
...that it is, as the people have named and called it, truly a Constitution ; and they properly said, ' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution,' and not, we, the people of each state." 3 Andthis expo- 1 • 1 Rawle on the Constitution, ch. 32,... | |
 | 1833 - 574 pages
...State. It is, as the people have named, and called it, truly a Constitution, and they properly said, We, the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution, and not We, the People of each State.'* This passage is quoted and adopted by Story, who also says... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1833 - 106 pages
...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... | |
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WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION. 
