 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 páginas
...success of the war have not quite come up to the lofty and sounding phrase of the manifesto. The people, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution,...constitution they have enumerated the powers which they hestow on it. They have made it a limited government. They have defined its authority. They have restrained... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 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...They have made it a limited government. They have restrained it to the exercise of such powers as are granted ; and all others, they declare, are reserved... | |
 | Larry D. Kramer - 2004 - 376 páginas
...it a Constitution, and in that Constitution they have enumerated the powers which they bestow upon it. They have made it a limited Government. They have defined its authority. . . . But, sir, they have not stopped here. If they had, they would have accomplished but half their... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 páginas
...Webster's oration is drenched in this sort of rhetoric, including even his argument for judicial supremacy: The People, then, sir, erected this Government. They...they have enumerated the powers which they bestow upon it. They have made it a limited Government. They have defined its authority. . . . But, sir, they... | |
 | 471 páginas
...consolidating school, however, contends for the latter seat of sovereignty. As Senator Webster asserted, "The people, then, Sir, erected this government. They...limited government. They have defined its authority." Although we may certainly disagree with regard to which people performed these acts - the real people... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 590 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 volition of its creators. The people, then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution,... | |
 | 1830 - 476 páginas
...they cannot coin money. If this constitution, sir, he the creature of state legislatures, it must he admitted that it has obtained a strange control over the volitions of its creator!. The people, then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution, and in that... | |
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States cannot now make war; they cannot contract alliances; they cannot make, each for itself, separate regulations of commerce; they cannot lay imposts; they cannot coin money. If this constitution, sir, be the creature of State legislatures, it must... 
