 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could...thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound surely the question, whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government, does not... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 392 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required not the affirmance and could...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 508 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 572 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | abraham lincoln - 1910 - 696 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. But when, 'in order to form a more perfect union,' it was deemed necessary to change this alliance... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act waa final. It required not the affirmance, and could not...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. But when, 'in order to form a more perfect union,' it was deemed necessary to change this alliance... | |
 | 1912 - 866 страници
...domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity.' * * • * "It has been said that the people had already surrendered...powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more 1o give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 страници
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government, does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | John Marshall - 1914 - 380 страници
...required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the State governments. The constitution as thus adopted was of complete obligation, and bound...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | Edward Samuel Corwin - 1914 - 204 страници
...namely, the right of revolution. Confronted with the question in the Federalist as to what would be the to the State sovereignties and had nothing more to...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the General... | |
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The assent of the states in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance,... 
