 | United States - 1864 - 350 pages
...decide thereon, do, in the name and on behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United Stat™, may be resumed by them whemoc.ofr tlv, same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...that Virginia, in accepting the Constitution, declared that the powers granted under that instrument " being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." I referred, also, to the fact... | |
 | James Madison - United States - 1865 - 768 pages
...Constitution, being derived from the peoplo of the United States, may bo resumed by them whensoever tho same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified, by tho Congress, by tho Senate or House of Representatives, acting in any capacity, by the President,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...language of Virginia, uttered when she gave her adhesion to the General Government. She then declared that "the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." In this statement no allusion... | |
 | John Welsford Cowell - United States - 1865 - 46 pages
...delegates of the people of Virginia DO, in their name and on behalf cj the people of Virginia, declare that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people, of the United States, &c. &c.' The question you put is twofold — 1st, whether the word ' people,' which, in each of the... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - United States - 1865 - 558 pages
...behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted Ddmlu. VoL in. p. 653. under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." 1They declare,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 398 pages
...Virginia, etc., do, in the name and in bchalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived...cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified, by the ConBnt even if these official texts are — as a party in America has long contended — insufficient... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...the people of the United States, may be resumed by them" (the people of the United States) " whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...granted thereby remains with them, and at their will," etc. This, it will be perceived, is a mere declaration of a philosophical opinion expressed in a preamble,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...elected, etc., etc., do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...United States, may he resumed by them" (the people of the United States) " whenever the same shall he perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that...granted thereby remains with them, and at their will," ctc. This, it will he perecived, is a mere declaration of a philosophieal opinion expressed in a preamble,... | |
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Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury- or oppression... 
