 | United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 614 pages
...unfit to dispose of some preliminary considerations which have grown out of the arguments at the bar. The constitution of the United States was ordained...constitution declares, by " the people of the United States." There can be no doubt that it was competent to the people to invest the general govcrnment with all... | |
 | 1830 - 584 pages
...unfit to dispose of some preliminary considerations, which have grown out of the arguments at the bar. The Constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the States m their sovtrtign capacity, but emphatically as the Constitution declares, by the people of the United... | |
 | 1830 - 566 pages
...unfit to dispose of some preliminary considerations, which have grown out of the arguments at the bar. The Constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the Slates in their sovtn-ign capacity, but emphatically as the Constitution declares, by the prt,ph of... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...present this all-importmt subject to the sober consideration of our constituents? It has been said that "the constitution of the United States was ordained...not by the States in their sovereign capacities, but by the people of the United States; it emanates from them, its powers are granted by them, and are... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...appropriate to this part of our subject. " The constitution of the United States," say the court, " was ordained and established, not by the states in...their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preample of the constitution declares, by the people of the United States.2 There can be no doubt,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...that " the constitution was ordained and established," not by the states in their sovereign capacity, but emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, "by the people of the United States." ยง 364. But if it were admitted, that the constitution is a compact between the states, " the inferences... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...unfit to dispose of some preliminary considerations which have grown out of the arguments at the bar. The constitution of the United States was ordained...constitution declares, by " the people of the United States." There can be no doubt that it was competent to the people to invest the general government with all... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...question was directly presented in the case of Martin vs. Hunter's Lessees, and although the fact, that the Constitution of the United States " was ordained...states in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically by the people of the United States," is made the foundation of the judgment of the supreme court in... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...sovereign and inde(a) In the case of Martin v. Hunter, judge Story, for the supreme court, said, that "the constitution of the United States was ordained...established, not by the states in their sovereign capacity, but, emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by the people of the United... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...is their favourite position " that the constitution of the United States was ordained and adopted, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preamble declares by the people of the United States, and it is this position which it behoves every lover of... | |
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The constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but, emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by " the people of the United States. 
