 American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid...  Debates in the Federal Convention, from Tuesday, August 7, 1787 until its ... - Страница 1559по James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 1624 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Richard Hofstadter - 1969 - 306 страници
...The Constitutional Convention, in transmitting its work to the Confederation Congress, reported that "the Constitution which we now present is the result...of our political situation rendered indispensable." It observed that not every state would be expected wholly to approve of the document, but pointed out:... | |
 | William Winslow Crosskey, William Jeffrey - 1953 - 608 страници
...points of inferior magnitude, than might have heen otherwise expeeted; and thus the Constitution, whieh we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deferenee and eoneession whieh the peeuliarity of our politieal situation rendered indispensible. That... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 страници
...consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of everv State is not perhaps to be... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 страници
...consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be... | |
 | Edward Millican - 292 страници
...constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but 'of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable. ' " It is a "lesser evil" than disunion, he says. This was Madison's true view of the matter, and it... | |
 | Ralph D. Gray, Michael A. Morrison - 1994 - 500 страници
...forming a more perfect Union — that the current unicameral Confederation was inadequate, and that only "a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible," could remedy the deficiency. Given both the portentous nature of the convention's recommendation... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 страници
...framers as gentlemen is also the larger decorum of the true American perspective. In Washington's words, "the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity. " Those who disagree must remember that the document grows out of "mutual deference and concession"... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1994 - 226 страници
...Constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result, not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable." A common government, with powers equal to its objects, is called for by the voice, and still more loudly... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - 1994 - 220 страници
...Senate] which is allowed on all hands to be the result, not of theory, but 'of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable.' " He notes the need for a "common government, with powers equal to its object" and remarks that such... | |
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