 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment, I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...and I should, under existing circumstances, favor, rat her than oppose, a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it. I will venture to... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...of the Constitution was rather repelled than invited. In the revision Mr. Lincoln said he should " favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act CHAP.XXI. upon it," and further expressed his willingness to accept the amendment recently proposed... | |
 | Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendment. I fully recognize the full authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...venture to add, that to me the convention mode seems prefenible, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only allowing... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...people over the whole sub]ect, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrnment itself; and I should, under existing circumstances,...me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it a'lows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions- originated by others, not... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...('(institution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...will venture to add that to me the convention mode «corns preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...it allows amendments "to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...Constitution amended. - While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised...it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not... | |
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While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor... 
