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
| Oliver Morris Wilson - Constitutional law - 1869 - 588 pages
...greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...thus the Constitution which we now present is the (xx) result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...of every true American — the coniclidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperitv, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence....Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magaitude than might hay^becn otherwise expected, ind thus the Constitution which we now present is... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...And thus the Constitution, which we now present, is (he result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity... | |
| United States. Congress. House - Parliamentary practice - 1874 - 558 pages
...greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution which wo now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which... | |
| William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which now we present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 536 pages
...view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American — 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... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 532 pages
...prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, sei^trasly and deeply impressed on our minds, 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... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...pros|>erity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This importiint consideration, seriously anil deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid in points of interior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the Constitution... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national...existence. This important consideration, seriously ami deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid in points of inferior... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1877 - 538 pages
...view Ihat which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American—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... | |
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