 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1873 - 1316 pages
...preamble of the Constitution of the United States. Do wo see any such surplusage as that ? Not at all. "We, the people of the United States," * * "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the I'nited States of America;" not "for the future." Now, why insert words entirely uncalled for... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - History - 1867 - 582 pages
...own proper sovereignty; and, conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared with becoming dignity, t We the people of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution. 5 Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country, and, in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...pronouns are sometimes used in apposition for the purpose of identifying the person of a noun ; as, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Note VII. — A proper name is often placed after a common name... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional law - 1874 - 412 pages
...separate and equal station to which they were entitled. The Constitution speaks the same language : ci We, the People of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." But the Articles of Confederation do not purport to come from the... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...proper sovereignty, and conscious of the plentitude of it, they declared, with becoming dignity, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country : and in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - Presidents - 1877 - 1100 pages
...people of the United States ou the lace of this Constitution speak with power, with sovereign power: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." When they came to the subject of the Presidency they said, '• The executive power shall be vested... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...to mean, they were one civil body politic. But a little care in investigation will dispel all doubt. "We, the people of the United States" * * * "do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Let us seek the meaning of the terms, "United States," and " United... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...themselves, thereby became parties to it. It was therefore properly declared in the preamble, that "We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 1 By the adoption of the Constitution the people of the States before... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...parse the words in apposition: 1. I love thy kingdom, Lord, The house of thy abode. — Dwitjht. 2. We, the people of the United States, ... do ordain and establish this Constitution. — US Constitution. 3. O Music, sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid ! — Collins.... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 
