| Literature - 1854 - 748 pages
...deliberations upon this subject, we have kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the interests of every true American, the consolidation of our union,...which Is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national • existence." Yes, this is the deliberate judgment of Washington—whose whole... | |
| George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...! States severally, but to the United States a« the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we hi kept one nation — and the federal constitution wae adopted for the same American Republic, styled... | |
| 1884 - 1062 pages
...president. When these presented the first sketch of the constitution to the Congress they said: — In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American, for in this scheme is involved our prosperity,... | |
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 510 pages
...difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation and extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 136 pages
...this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particular interests. In all our deliberations...view that which appears to us the greatest interest to every true American — the consideration of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity,... | |
| United States, Denys Peter Myers - Constitutional history - 1961 - 104 pages
...their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subjeft we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to...which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration. seriously and deeply impressed on our... | |
| United States. National Park Service - Constitutions - 1976 - 378 pages
...with the Constitution when he submitted it to the Continental Congress. Its purpose, he wrote, was the "consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." Arguments were important, but the actual process of ratification involved... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1978 - 1290 pages
...George Washington upon presentation of the original Constitution to the Congress in 1787. He said, "In all our deliberations on this subject we kept...interest of every true American, the consolidation of Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." Nearly... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...this difficulty was encreased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations...that which appears to us the greatest interest of everv true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,... | |
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