 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
 | George Washington Bacon - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 122 pages
...consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, * Elliott's Debates, 249. safety, — perhaps our national existence. This 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 850 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each stato in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 604 pages
...constitution was reported by Johnson, on the twelfth of September, with a letter to congress stating it to be the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. Several amendments having been made to the plan,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...deference and concession which the peculiarity of pur political situation rendered indispensable. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...our minds, led each State in the Convention to be lesa rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constitution... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. Tliis h:ito been otherwise expected ; and thus the Constiljilion which we now present is the result of a... | |
 | 1868 - 646 pages
...greatest interest of every true American, — the consolidation of oar Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; aud thus the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, aud of that mutual... | |
 | Charles Lanman - United States - 1868 - 648 pages
...greatest interest of every true American, — the consolidation of our Union, — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of interior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which we now... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1868 - 620 pages
...American—the consolidation of our Union; in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety—perhaps our national existence. This important consideration,...on our minds, led each state in the convention to he less rig1d on points of inferior magnitude than might have heen otherwise expected; and thus the... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...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 upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than... | |
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