 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 562 páginas
...Government. ' ' Give me leave to inquire," said Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, "who authorised them to speak the language of 'We, the people,' instead...'We, the States '? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. " "I stumble at the threshold, ' ' said Samuel Adams, on first reading... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 522 páginas
...Government. ' ' Give me leave to inquire," said Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, "who authorised them to speak the language of 'We, the people,' instead...the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation." "I stumble at the threshold," said Samuel Adams, on first reading the... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1905 - 396 páginas
...Mujurlty [ | Efcnly Olrldcd i '... ft CO . right," he exclaimed, "had they to say, We, the people? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states?" He declared that the Constitution established a consolidated government, and that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 390 páginas
...have a reason for his conduct." "What right," he exclaimed, "had they to say, We, the people? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states?" He declared that the Constitution established a consolidated government, and that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 700 páginas
...sovereignty came up frequently. Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, June 4, 1788, declared: '''We the People'? My political curiosity, exclusive...We the States? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of the compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - 190 páginas
...who exclaimed in the Virginia Convention of 1788, when speaking of the framers of the Constitution: "Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We,...the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 626 páginas
...sovereignty came up frequently. Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, June 4, 1788, declared: "'We the People'? My political curiosity, exclusive...solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who 172 authorized them to speak the language of, 'We the People,' instead of We the States? States are... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 520 páginas
...have the highest veneration for those gentlemen ; but, sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity,...are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 512 páginas
...they to say, ' We, the People '? . . . Who 20. PL Ford, Writings of Jefferson, IV, 474-476. authorizes them to speak the language of We, the People, instead...States? States are the characteristics and soul of confederation. If the States be not agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national... | |
 | 1909 - 746 páginas
...man who saved us by his valor." "What right," he continued, "had they to say, We, the people? * * * Who authorized them to speak the language of We, the people, instead of We, the states?" He said of the constitution that he "saw poison under its wings"; that it "squinted toward monarchy";... | |
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My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of "We, the People," instead of "We, the States"? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation.... 
