 | Political science - 1865 - 308 pages
...independent sovereignty to each." That the convention kept " steadily in view THE CONSOLIDATION OP OUR UNION," IN WHICH IS INVOLVED OUR PROSPERITY, FELICITY, SAFETY, PERHAPS OUR NATIONAL EXISTENCE. (See Letter, Sept. 17, 1787.) 64. The constitution framed by the convention, contained a provision... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler - Constitutional history - 1924 - 424 pages
...they said, "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,...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." In reading this letter one discerns, as it were, the fine statement of their purpose made by Chief... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - Constitutional history - 1924 - 358 pages
...organization. . . . 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,...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 360 pages
...interests. 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,...felicity, safety — perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
 | James Francis Lawson - Constitutional history - 1926 - 408 pages
...In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us as the greatest interest of every true American, the...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This letter, prepared by a committee of five of the most conspicuous advocates of national power and... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 218 pages
...difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. " In 'all our deliberations on this subject, we kept...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1933 - 58 pages
...principles which guided the framers, we will then resolve our doubts in favor of that consolidation "in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." James Wilson, who helped draft the Constitution, told the Pennsylvania convention: Whatever object... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor - 1933 - 394 pages
...principles which guided the framers, we will then resolve our doubts in favor of that consolidation " in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." James Wilson, who helped draft the Constitution, told the Pennsylvania convention: Whatever object... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Political Science - 1941 - 904 pages
...interests. 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,...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
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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 existence. 
