 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of fourand-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...people's Constitution, the people's government, made fur the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. The peopie of the United States have... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1902 - 622 páginas
...January 26, 1830, as printed in "The Works of Daniel Webster " (Boston, 1851), this sentence occurs : — It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people (III. 321). Lamartine, in his History of the Girondists (London, 1850, Bohu's edition), speaking of... | |
 | 1880 - 710 páginas
...limits of its authority. It is the servant of four and twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes; and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity...made by the people; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1106 páginas
...ratified it, but it was proposed for adoption to popular conventions.'' Webster, in 1830, spoke of " the people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people." President Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, speaks of " the government of the people, by the people,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1882 - 740 páginas
...Federalists, that the United States was a Nation. It was not the servant of four and twenty masters, but "the people's Constitution, the people's Government...made by the people ; and answerable to the people." It was not " the creature of State Legislatures;" it was the "independent offspring of the popular... | |
 | 1882 - 828 páginas
...vols., 12mo; pp. 728, 942. New York: Harper & Brothers. "No man who believes with Daniel Webster in "the people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," will be drawn to the Memoirs of Prince Mettcrnich by any cord of admiration for his diplomacy or statesmanship.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...angels down. Second Speech on Foot't Baolution, Jan. 26, 1830. The past, at least, is secure. IKd. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.1 Jtrid. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1883 - 706 páginas
...United States was a nation, the government of which was the independent offspring of the popular will, " made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." The close of the first term of Jackson was approaching, and the time for the choice of his successor arrived,... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1883 - 730 páginas
...United States was a nation, the government of which was the independent offspring of the popular will, " made- for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 884 páginas
...ed., 8. In the sense above given may be explained Mr. Webster's remark on the Foot resolutions: "It is the people's constitution ; the people's government;...made by the people, and answerable to the people." be regarded as convertible with the plebiscite system which was introduced into France by Napoleon... | |
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It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. 
