 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - 1834 - 404 страници
...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 страници
...people of the United States had entered into. Finally, Sir, how can any man get over the words of tlie Constitution itself? — "WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED...STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION." TheSC Words must cease to be a part of the Constitution, they must be obliterated from the parchment... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 810 страници
...states had entered into with each other; but which the people of the United States had entered into. Finally, sir, how can any man get over the words of the constitution itself? — « \Ve, the people of the United Stales, do ordain and establish this constitutiun." These words... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 236 страници
...it was in perfect harmony with all the provisions in its body, and as declared in its front; that, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." The meaning is clear and plain, by a reference to the people of... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 страници
...own proper sovereignty; and, conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared, with becoming dignity, we, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this ' constitution.' Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country: and, in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | William Jay - 1839 - 232 страници
...HENRY VROOMAN VIEW OF THE ACTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN BEHALF OF SLAVERY. BY WILLIAM JAY. " We, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, do ordain and establish this Constitution." — Federal Constitution. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY JS TAYLOR. 1839. Entered according to the Act of Congress,... | |
 | 1842 - 498 страници
...states as such, is founded exclusively on the particular terms of the preamble. The language is, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United Slates of America." " The people do ordain and establish, not contract and stipulate... | |
 | Samuel Kirkland Lothrop - 1842 - 516 страници
...States they passed under the Constitution into a Union, not of the States, but of the people:—"We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution, which, with the laws and treaties formed under it, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1843 - 288 страници
...to promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, we, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." The authority of the people, and the legitimate object of all government, are here both clearly and... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 254 страници
...agreement, (see page 339,) than as the agreement itself. The agreement of the states is in the preamble, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America."] or of the people thereof, whereby each of the several states, and... | |
| |
We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution. 
