 | 1863 - 538 էջ
...Government. It appears, in its first sentence, not to have been entered into by the States, but to have been ordained and established by the People of the United States, for " themselves and their posterity." The States are not named in it ; nearly all the characteristic powers of sovereignty... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 էջ
...shall treat it, then, as it is denominated in the instrument itself, as a CONSTITUTION of government, ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity.1 They have declared it the supreme law of the land. They have made it a limited... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 էջ
...the cause. The question thus presented is, we think, of great importance, but not of much difficulty. The constitution was ordained and established by the...provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers 29 ~ Pet. 247. of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 էջ
...was, that the constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States of America for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual states. That each state established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 էջ
...and was not applicable to the legislatures of the states. (6) The reason for this opinion was, that the constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States of America for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual states.... | |
 | Michigan. Constitutional Convention - 1850 - 990 էջ
...established by the people of the US for themselves— for their own government; and not for the go-? vernment of the individual States. Each State established a...government as its judgment dictated. The people of, the US framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best calculated to promote their... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - 1850 - 1022 էջ
...intended, solely, as a limitation on the exercise of power by the government of the United States, and that the Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves; for the government of individual States. Each State established a Constitution for itself, and in local... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - 1850 - 1012 էջ
...j solely, as a limitation on the exercise of power by the government of the United States, and that the Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves; for the government of individual | States. Each State established a Constitution j for itself, and in local... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - 1853 - 364 էջ
...same eminent jurist affirmed these views, and again says : " The constitution (of the United States) was ordained and established by the people of the...powers of its particular government as its judgment dictates. The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 536 էջ
...applicable to the legrslation of the states. Borron v. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. «43. 2. The constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United 3. The record of the proceedings in this case, brought up with the writ of error States for themselves;... | |
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The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a Constitution for itself, and, in that Constitution,... 
