| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1874 - 782 páginas
...be the agent of the people, then the people alone can control it, restrain it, modify or reform it. It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's...The people of the United States have declared that the Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition or dispute their authority.... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 páginas
...four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...law. We must either admit the proposition or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not affected... | |
| 1877 - 668 páginas
...people, and they exclusively, are the source and original of all power in the affairs of state. " It is the people's constitution, the people's government...made by the people and answerable to the people." Our rulers are but the exponents of the public will and sentiment ; they are but the representatives... | |
| John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 páginas
...it the idea of Freedom.1 Speech at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Boston, May 29, 1850. 1 The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. — Daniel Webster, Speech, 1830. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 'T is heaven alone that is given away, T is... | |
| Frank Moore - 1878 - 658 páginas
...different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises frora » in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and tli« people's constitution, the people's government ; made for the people ; made by the people ; and... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...fourand-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity 4 fur the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. The peopie of the United States have... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1902 - 622 páginas
...January 26, 1830, as printed in "The Works of Daniel Webster " (Boston, 1851), this sentence occurs : — It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people (III. 321). Lamartine, in his History of the Girondists (London, 1850, Bohu's edition), speaking of... | |
| 1880 - 698 páginas
...twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes; and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The states are unquestionably sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not affected... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 páginas
...ratified it, but it was proposed for adoption to popular conventions.'' Webster, in 1830, spoke of " the people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people." President Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, speaks of " the government of the people, by the people,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 páginas
...four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...United States have declared that this Constitution v. shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposiO tion, or dispute their authority. The... | |
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