 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 страници
...authority that can be appealed to, expressly declares its origin in these words of the preamble : '' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." Had it been the work of the States, this declaration would have been a falsehood, and would not have... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 страници
...pronouns are sometimes used in apposition for the purpose of identifying the person of a noun ; as, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." A common is often placed after a proper name in apposition ; as,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 882 страници
...after the war. At one time even at periods of the greatest danger, § 371. The preamble declares: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." It is, as we shall hereafter see more fully, 1 the imposition by... | |
 | 1885 - 890 страници
...emphatically speaks of it as a solemn ordinance and establishment of government. The language is: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." Com. on the Constitution (ЛЬг. ed.), 117. And again, page 119,... | |
 | Richard Coxe McMurtrie - 1886 - 36 страници
...attribute of all other civilized sovereignties of the day. 2O The language of the Constitution is: We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. * * * The Congress shall have power to coin money,' and regulate... | |
 | William Whitelock - 1887 - 390 страници
...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,... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1887 - 726 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 Augustus Mowry - 1887 - 312 страници
...place, it should be observed that the source of power is here perfectly authoritative, being the people: "We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." The language is explicit and peremptory: "ordain and establish." It is definite in regard to the subject:... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - 420 страници
...separate and equal station to which they were entitled. The Constitution speaks the same language : "We, the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." But the Articles of Confederation do not purport to come from the... | |
 | 1916 - 948 страници
...CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS, 4 ed., I'll. 2. Observe the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people of the United States, ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 4 See Holmberg ti. Jones, 7 Idaho 752, 758, 65 Pac. 563, 564. See... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution. 
