 | 1863 - 538 pages
...Government. It appears, in its first sentence, not to have been entered into by the States, but to have been ordained and established by the People of the United States, for " themselves and their posterity." The States are not named in it ; nearly all the characteristic powers of sovereignty... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...shall treat it, then, as it is denominated in the instrument itself, as a CONSTITUTION of government, ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity.1 They have declared it the supreme law of the land. They have made it a limited... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...and was not applicable to the legislatures of the states. (6) The reason for this opinion was, that the constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States of America for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual states.... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1012 pages
...j solely, as a limitation on the exercise of power by the government of the United States, and that the Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves; for the government of individual | States. Each State established a Constitution j for itself, and in local... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1022 pages
...intended, solely, as a limitation on the exercise of power by the government of the United States, and that the Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves; for the government of individual States. Each State established a Constitution for itself, and in local... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 536 pages
...the United States. If this proposition be untrue, the court can take no jurisdiction of the cause. The question thus presented is, we think, of great importance, but not of much difficulty. If these propositions be correct, the fifth amendment must be understood as restraining the power of... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...the formation of that more perfect Uuion and free written Constitution under which we live. Sir, that Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States, to establish justice; to provide for the common defence; to promote the gen eral welfare; to insure... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...not warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it T BALLOT FOR SP and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five states, and so... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...not warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it was ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five States, and so... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...States. Did the Constitution of the United States deprive them or their descendants of citizenship ? That Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States, through the action, in each State, of those persons who were qualified by its laws to act thereon,... | |
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The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States, through the action in each State, of those persons who were qualified by its laws to act thereon in behalf of themselves and all other citizens of the State. 
