 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...hand, and demanding from them obedience on the other. THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN EMPIRE. — The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. A SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. — I contend that there is a supreme law of the land, consisting of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Law - 1886 - 818 pages
...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF TH« PEOPLE." Such is the language, Sir, addressed to the people, while they yet had the Constitution... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1890 - 576 pages
...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PKOPLE." Such is the language, Sir, addressed to the people, while they yet had the Constitution under... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...determined that the fabric of American empire ought to rest and should rest on the solid basis of Lthe consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow and should flow immediately from the high~ est original fountain of all legitimate authority.1 And,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the CONSENT OP THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain... | |
 | Caleb William Loring - Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 - 1893 - 218 pages
...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people." ^ And amongst all the ratifications by_ the States,_thgre is not_on,e which speaks of the Constitution... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...of our National Government deeper, than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of...pure original fountain of all legitimate authority. PUBLIUS. NUMBER XXIII. BY MR. HAMILTON. The Neoessitv of a Government, at least equally Energetic with... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...monarchical, government, as Hamilton, declared : " The fabric of American empire ought to rest upon the solid basis of the consent of the people. The...pure original fountain of all legitimate authority." In some of our State Constitutions this doctrine reappears. Thus, in Massachusetts, the Bill of Rights... | |
 | David Franklin Houston - Nullification - 1896 - 194 pages
...doctrine which, in a discussion relating to the Confederation, had found some respectable advocates. " The possibility of a question of this nature proves...ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the peopled 4 Thus it appears, from a fair examination of the Fed- Virginia and eralist, that Calhoun,s... | |
 | David Augustus Straker - West Indians - 1896 - 154 pages
...Government. His tragir end by duel, fought with Aaron Burr, is also generally known. His famous utterances, "The fabric of the American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people," and the essential character of such is founded in the free voice of the whole people of the United... | |
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The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority. 
