If the several States in the Union are to become one entire Nation, under one Legislature, the Powers of which shall extend to every Subject of Legislation, and its Laws be supreme & controul the whole, the Idea of Sovereignty in these States must be... Famous Americans of Recent Times - Strona 179autor: James Parton - 1867 - Liczba stron: 473Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - Liczba stron: 254
...as it is already called, so closely as it was necessary for me, before I should venture an opinion. I confess, as I enter the building I stumble at the...able to conceive, why the wisdom of the convention lead them to give the preference to the former, before the latter. If the several states in the union,... | |
| William Vincent Wells - 1865 - Liczba stron: 562
...as it is already called, so closely as it was necessary for me, before I should venture an opinion. I confess, as I enter the building, I stumble at the...latter. If the several States in the Union are to become one entire nation under one Legislature, the powers of which shall extend to every subject of... | |
| Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - Liczba stron: 656
...being indicated by the following extract from a letter to Richard Henry Lee, dated December 3, 1787 : "I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government, instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
| George Bancroft - 1882 - Liczba stron: 532
...town meetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states ; " but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting... | |
| George Fitch - 1883 - Liczba stron: 276
...new Constitution a reluctant support, used this language in a letter to a friend : " I confess, aj I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....national government instead of a federal union of the States. If the several States of the Union are to be one entire nation, under one legislature,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - Liczba stron: 610
...its townmeetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states;" but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting to... | |
| 1886 - Liczba stron: 190
...had been in the South, also found much to criticise in the new Constitution. " I confess," he wrote, "as I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter." It was probably owing to his strong State-rights views that he had not been chosen a delegate to the... | |
| United States - 1887 - Liczba stron: 62
...had been in the South, also found much to criticise in the new Constitution. " I confess," he wrote, "as I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter." It was probably owing to his strong State-rights views that he had not been chosen a delegate to the... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1891 - Liczba stron: 508
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said : — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1891 - Liczba stron: 502
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said: — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
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