| Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 páginas
...their constitutionality were to be decided by the Supreme Court. On this point he said : "The people erected this Government. They gave it a Constitution...Constitution they have enumerated the powers which they bestowed on it. They have defined its authority. They have restrained it to the exercise of such powers... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 páginas
...' ita lex scripta eat,' to follow and obey." So Mr. Webster said, in reply to Hayne: " The people, sir, erected this government. They gave it a Constitution,...Constitution they have enumerated the powers which they have bestowed on it. They have made it a limited government. They have denned its authority." And so... | |
| Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 páginas
...a very condensed and powerful form. The following passage is selected as peculiarly appropriate: " The people, then, sir, erected this government. They...and in that Constitution they have enumerated the power? which they bestow on it. They have made it a limited government. They have defined its authority.... | |
| 1880 - 698 páginas
...commerce ; they cannot lay imposts ; they cannot coin money. If this constitution, sir, be the creature of state legislatures, it must be admitted that it has obtained a strange control over the iolitions of its creators. The people then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution,... | |
| 1859 - 1128 páginas
...the federal union and a part remaining with the states. In the language of Mr. Webster, " The people erected this government. They gave it a constitution,...they have enumerated the powers which they bestow upon it. They have made it a limited government. They have defined its authority. They have restrained... | |
| Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 páginas
...a very condensed and powerful form. The following passage is selected as ]>eciiliarly appropriate : "The people, then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a Constitution, ami in that Constitution they have enumerated the powers which they Inflow on it. They have made it... | |
| Patrick Cudmore - 1892 - 188 páginas
...commerce; they cannot lay imposts; they cannot coin money. If this constitution, sir, be the creature of state legislatures, it must be admitted that it...volitions of its creators. The people, then, sir, created this government. They gave it a constitution, and in that constitution they have enumerated... | |
| Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1892 - 930 páginas
...commerce ; they cannot lay imposts ; they cannot coin money. If this constitution, sir, be the creature laws of volition of its creators. The people then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution,... | |
| Caleb William Loring - 1893 - 218 páginas
...money, or making treaties; it gave the United States the exclusive power to make citizens. The people erected this Government; they gave it a Constitution, and in that Constitution they enumerated the powers they bestowed ; they made it a limited Government ; they denned its authority.... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 páginas
...State legislatures, it must be admitted that it has obtained a strange control over the volitions of 15 its creators. The people, then, Sir, erected this...have made it a limited government. They have defined 20 its authority. They have restrained it to the exercise of such powers as are granted ; and all others,... | |
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