 | Timothy Farrar - Constitutional law - 1867 - 560 pages
...Constitution recognized, no other law. CHAPTER XXIX. THE STATES. ยง 569. THE Constitution having been ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity, as the supreme law for the whole land and every part thereof, and made fully adequate... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...so construed as to restrain the legislative power of a state as well as that of the United States. The question thus presented is, we think, of great...of the United States for themselves, for their own 1 7 Peters' R. 243. government, and not for the government of the individual states. Each state established... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 588 pages
...the legislative power of a state as well as that of the United States. The question thus pre. sented is, we think, of great importance, but not of much...of the United States for themselves, for their own l 7 Peters' R. 243. government, and not for the government of the individual states. Each state established... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...error; and Chief Justice Marshall, declaring the unanimous judgment of the court, said: " The question presented is, we think, of great importance but not...people of the United States for themselves, for their ewn government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 568 pages
...is no compact or league between States, involving the recognition of State Rights, but a government ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity. This government is not established by the Statts, nor is it established for the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...is no compact or league between States, involving the recognition of State Rights, but a government ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves and their posterity. This government is not established by the States, nor is it established for tlie... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 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 perMR. JUSTICE CURTIS.] The Dred Scott Case. sons who were... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1926 - 426 pages
...will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." As the Constitution was ordained and established by the People of the United States "in order to form a more perfect Union," the duty of the President relative to the Union is obvious.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...not warranted by any thing 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... | |
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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. 
