 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 502 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of diffeient wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people: and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 492 pages
...of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it secrns no less) arises from a misconception as to the origin...people's Constitution, the people's government; made I'or the people; made by the people: and answerable to the people. The people of the United States... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1845 - 706 pages
...creature of the people ? . . . It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's GovernmeilLi-inade for the people ; made by the people ; and answerable to the. people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Sarah Mytton Maury - Statesmen, American - 1847 - 266 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people, and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 582 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people, and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - Foot's resolution, 1829 - 1852 - 90 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes ; and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...by the people ; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes ; and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...by the people ; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people, and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 206 pages
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes ; and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...the people's government; made for the people; made bytho nle ; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have ired that this constitution... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1853 - 494 pages
...who in its constant and earnest defence, has justly obtained the title of its great expounder, "It is the people's constitution — the people's government...made by the people, and answerable to the people." It is complex, because it is supreme, and yet limited; because it is sovereign, and yet recognizing... | |
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It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. 
