 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise ex. pected : and thusthc constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation.rendered in~ dispensable. That it will... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise ex. pected : and thusthc constitution, which we now present, is- the result...of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation.rendered indispensable. That it will... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...transmitted to congress in a letter subscribed by the president, in which the constitution was said to be, " the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. " That it... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid oh points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...Constitution, which •we now present, is the result pf a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political... | |
 | David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...but did not presume to impose it on their fellow citizens. They simply reported it to congress, " as the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable;" and that... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...interests. In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American,...of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable. That it will... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 320 pages
...consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable. That it will... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...following remarks. " The convention have resolved, that this constitution be transmitted to Congress as the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference, and concession, which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. " That it... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...consideration, seriously and deeply impressed in our minds, led each slate in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable. That it will... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1825 - 742 pages
...difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interest. The Constitution which we now present is the result...of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable." If the Constitution... | |
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In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national... 
