| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. — • This important consideration seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each...inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise ex. pected : and thusthc constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and... | |
| William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. — This important consideration seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each...inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise ex. pected : and thusthc constitution, which we now present, is- the result of a spirit of amity, and... | |
| 1802 - 440 pages
...constitution of the United States, the result of his presiding wisdom, was adopted, as it was formed in ' a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and...concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable,' God grant that in this spirit it be long preservpd, that so it may... | |
| William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. riously and deeply impressed on ouv minds, R-ii each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points...magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected ; aod thus the Constitution, which we now present," is th* result of a spirit of amity, and of that... | |
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...transmitted to congress in a letter subscribed by the president, in which the constitution was said to be, " the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession, which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable. " That it will meet the full and entire approbation... | |
| Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...seriously and deeply impressed upon our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid oh points of inferior magnitude, than might have been...Constitution, which •we now present, is the result pf a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political... | |
| David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...but did not presume to impose it on their fellow citizens. They simply reported it to congress, " as the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual...deference and concession, which the peculiarity of their political situation rendered indispensable;" and that in their opinion, " it should be submitted... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led cfach State in the Convention to be less rigid on points...deference and concession which the peculiarity of onr political situation rendered indispensable. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...Constitution of the United States, the result of his presiding wisdom, was adopted, as it was formed in " a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and...concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable." God grant that in this spirit it be long preserved, that so it may... | |
| United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...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 to be less rigid in points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected. And thus the constitution... | |
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