 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...Virginia, elected do, in the name and on the behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them" (the people of the United States) " whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...elected, etc., etc., do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 426 pages
...United States, may he resumed by them" (the people of the United States) " whenever the same shall he perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that...granted thereby remains with them, and at their will," ctc. This, it will he perecived, is a mere declaration of a philosophieal opinion expressed in a preamble,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Constitutional law - 1866 - 296 pages
...Virginia, duly elected, &c Do in the name, and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Mr. Webster... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1866 - 290 pages
...that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Mr. Webster understood these words, "the people of the United States," precisely as he understood them... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Presidents - 1866 - 554 pages
...Debates. Vol. III. p. 653. tinder the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression."1 They declare, in behalf of Virginia, that the powers of the Constitution are derived... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...elected, etc., etc., do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 720 pages
...ratify the Constitution, ' in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression. 'f * * * " Is this language which... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...elected, etc., etc., do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...JUDGE BYNUM. The language is, that the powers granted * Elliot's Debates, vol. i, p. 327. under it being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them. How does that mean that the people of Virginia can resume these powers by themselves ? Mr. STEPHENS.... | |
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Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... 
