In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.... Laws - Page 15by Maine - 1822Full view - About this book
| Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our union; in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety — perhaps our national...important consideration seriously and deeply impressed our minds ; and led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 320 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, — perhaps our...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
| Charles Sitgreaves - 1836 - 380 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union; in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...important consideration seriously and deeply impressed our minds; and led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1888 - 576 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...than might have been otherwise expected. And thus tlie Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...safety, perhaps our national exis" tence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply im" pressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to...points of inferior magnitude, than might have been oth" erwise expected ; and thus the constitution, which we now pre"' sent, is the result of a spirit... | |
| Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1838 - 284 pages
...interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our greatest prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude,... | |
| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 702 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...led each State in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution... | |
| The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, and perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in convention, to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected;... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional history - 1844 - 370 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, tluui might have been otherwise expected; and thus the constitution, which we now present, is the result... | |
| Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...Convention ; and in their letter transmitting it to Congress, they declared the Constitution to be " the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political system rendered indispensable." The course pointed out by the Convention was pursued... | |
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