 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...acts within the limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes; and yet bound to obey...States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The states are unquestionably... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...ratified it, but it was proposed for adoption to popular conventions.'' Webster, in 1830, spoke of " the people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people." President Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, speaks of " the government of the people, by the people,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 pages
...acts within the limits of its authority. It is the servant of four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey...United States have declared that this Constitution v. shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposiO tion, or dispute their authority. The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1882 - 740 pages
...Federalists, that the United States was a Nation. It was not the servant of four and twenty masters, but "the people's Constitution, the people's Government...made by the people ; and answerable to the people." It was not " the creature of State Legislatures;" it was the "independent offspring of the popular... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1882 - 828 pages
...vols., 12mo; pp. 728, 942. New York: Harper & Brothers. "No man who believes with Daniel Webster in "the people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," will be drawn to the Memoirs of Prince Mettcrnich by any cord of admiration for his diplomacy or statesmanship.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...angels down. Second Speech on Foot't Baolution, Jan. 26, 1830. The past, at least, is secure. IKd. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.1 Jtrid. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...United States was a nation, the government of which was the independent offspring of the popular will, " made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." The close of the first term of Jackson was approaching, and the time for the choice of his successor arrived,... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - United States - 1883 - 734 pages
...United States was a nation, the government of which was the independent offspring of the popular will, " made- for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...ed., 8. In the sense above given may be explained Mr. Webster's remark on the Foot resolutions: "It is the people's constitution ; the people's government;...made by the people, and answerable to the people." be regarded as convertible with the plebiscite system which was introduced into France by Napoleon... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Law - 1886 - 818 pages
...acts within the limits of its authority. It is the servant of fourand-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey...made by the people, and answerable to the people. The peo17 pie of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
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It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. 
