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" kept steadily in view was the consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention... "
The Works of William H. Seward - Page 255
by William Henry Seward - 1884
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Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular ...

John Lauritz Larson - Political Science - 2001 - 348 pages
...there was no higher purpose in the founding than " ''the consolidation of our Union [Clay's emphasis], in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.'" Especially with the rise of the West, where a scarcity of capital and enormous developmental needs...
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John C. Calhoun

Von Holst H. - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 364 pages
...declared “ the consolidation of the Union “ to be “ the greatest interest of every true American, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.” We have seen how ardently Calhoun professed the same faith in his earlier years. Now, he boldy proclaims...
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America Back Then: A Compilation of Historic, Patriotic Literature

Andrew S. Weeks - Literary Collections - 2002 - 216 pages
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The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and ...

Mark Robert Killenbeck - Law - 2002 - 214 pages
...with "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." 188 And individual state interests that might prove "particularly disagreeable or injurious to others"...
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To Form A More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United ...

Robert A. McGuire - Business & Economics - 2003 - 416 pages
...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,...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...
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Journal of the Federal Convention

United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 pages
...difference among the several States, as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity,...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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Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life

William Howard Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 368 pages
...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." Above all, the Constitution now presented was, in Morris's best diplomatic gloss, the "Result of a...
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European Constitutionalism Beyond the State

J. H. H. Weiler, Marlene Wind - Law - 2003 - 256 pages
...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.' In L. Wolf-Phillips (ed.), Constitutions of Modern States: Selected Texts (London: Pall Mall Press,...
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George Washington: The Man of the Age

John P. Kaminski - Presidents - 2004 - 68 pages
...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,...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...
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A Treatise on International Law and a Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction ...

Daniel Gardner - International law - 2004 - 318 pages
...Constitution agreed on by the Convention, says, that the aim of that body was, " the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." The great end of enlarging the powers of the federal government was to perfect the union of the thirteen...
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