 | Stephen Cullen Carpenter - 1815 - 514 էջ
...the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states. With respect to the gentlemen who formed the con•vention, I must repeat, sir, that I entertain the... | |
 | 1827 - 524 էջ
...characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention; and were some of them not... | |
 | 1827 - 526 էջ
...characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the convention ; and were some of them not... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 էջ
...are the characteristics and soul of n confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other states. See 1... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 692 էջ
...characteristics arid the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must bo one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states. I have the highest respect for those gentlemen who formed the Convention, and, were some of them not... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 էջ
...say " we the people," instead of " we the States." If the States are not the agents of the compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the States. The people gave them no power to use their name : " The federal convention ought to have amended the... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 254 էջ
...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 of the people of all the states." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other states. See 1... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 էջ
...the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of the States." And what said Edmund Randolph in reply ? " The gentleman inquires why we assumed the language... | |
 | 1855 - 560 էջ
..."are the characteristics and soul of a confederacy. If the States be not the agents to the compact, it must be one great consolidated, national government, of the people of all the States." In answer to this pointed and momentous question, Mr. Madison replied, "Who are the parties to the... | |
 | George Robertson - 1855 - 422 էջ
...because the Constitution and the constitutional acts of the United States are "the Supreme law" of all the people of all the States; and the Supreme Court of the Union has delegated to it, by the people und for their protection, the ultimate power to decide on... | |
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People," instead 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 consolidated national government of the people of all the states. 
