 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 existence....  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 2031861Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Morris Wilson - Constitutional law - 1869 - 588 pages
...— the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...thus the Constitution which we now present is the (xx) result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Constitutional history - 1892 - 440 pages
...American, the "consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, ''felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important " consideration,...state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of in" ferior magnitude, than might otherwise have been expected ; "and thus the Constitution which we... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - Judges - 1892 - 472 pages
...Convention to be less 1 Constitution of the United States, Article VI. 'William Allen Butler, Esq. rigid in points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution as presented was the result of amity and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1893 - 432 pages
...habits, and particular interests. union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Constitutional history - 1894 - 910 pages
...American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Constitutional history - 1894 - 904 pages
...American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...deference and concession which the peculiarity of bur political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...the " consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, " felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important " consideration,...state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of in" ferior magnitude, than might otherwise have been expected ; "and thus the Constitution which we... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1895 - 622 pages
...American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. Leaves Philadelphia: "September 18. — Finished what private... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing - United States - 1895 - 484 pages
...our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important <~r•n«ideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected." This, Sir, is General Washington's consolidation. This is true constitutional consolidation. I wish... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 616 pages
...of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. And thus the constitution which we now present is the result of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable."... | |
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