 | 1863 - 538 pages
...pleasure in virtue of its sovereignty. This imaginary right has been the subject of discussion for rn^re than thirty years, having been originally suggested,...powers of sovereignty are expressly granted to the * See Appendix A General Government and expressly prohibited to the States, and so far from reserving... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 782 pages
...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. They have declared it the supreme law of the land. They have made it a limited government. They have... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...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 government.... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...thus presented is, we think, of great importance, but not of much difficulty. 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... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1022 pages
...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 - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1012 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...eminent jurist affirmed these views, and again says : " The constitution (of the United States) 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it was ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five States, and so in every sense part... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it was ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five States, and BO in every sense part... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it was ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five States, and so in every sense part... | |
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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... 
