 | Literature - 1900 - 460 pages
...construction, or otherwise? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves; they imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...construction, or otherwise? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves : they imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 450 pages
...construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves. They imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, and under their oaths of office, and subject... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Orators - 1902 - 404 pages
...construction, or otherwise? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves; they imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1902 - 316 pages
...construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves. They imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, and under their oaths of office, and subject... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1902 - 446 pages
...people have not trusted their safety, in regard to the general Constitution, Riverside Branch AMSTERDAM to these hands. They have required other security,...instrument and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office and subject to... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...it, the people know how to get rid of it. If any construction be established, unacceptable to them, so as to become, practically, a part of the Constitution,...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 pages
...construction, or otherwise? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves; they imagine there is no safety for...words of the instrument, and to such construction aa the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1904 - 440 pages
...is, while they are satisfied with it, and refuse to change it, who has given, or who can give, to the legislatures a right to alter it, either by interference,...themselves, in doubtful cases, should put on their powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to their responsibility to them, just as the people... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 484 pages
...construction, or otherwise? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves; they imagine there is no safety for...instrument, and to such construction as the government itself, in doubtful cases, should put on its own powers, under their oaths of office, and subject to... | |
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Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do any thing for themselves ; they imagine there is no safety for them any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the state legislatures. Sir, the people have not trusted... 
