| United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 pages
...instructed. Let me say, that in Ibis general sense there is no such thing as extending the Constitution. The Constitution is extended over the United States, and over nothing else. It cannot be extended over anything except over the old States and the new States that shall come in... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 648 pages
...instructed. Let me say that in this general sense there is no such thing as eitending the constitution. The constitution is extended over the United States...extend over nothing else. It cannot be extended over any thing except orer the old States and the new States that shall come in hereafter, when they do... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 214 pages
...instructed. Let me say, that in this general sense there is no such thing as extending the Constitution. The Constitution is extended over the United States, and over nothing else. It cannot be extended over any thing except over the old States and the new States that shall come... | |
| United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 pages
...such thing ae extending the Constitution. The Constitution is extended over Uie United States, and over nothing else. It cannot be extended over anything...that shall come in hereafter, when they do come in. There is a want of accuracy of ideas hi this respect that is quite remarkable among eminent gentlemen,... | |
| David Colbreth Broderick - 1858 - 16 pages
...no such thing as extending the Constitution. TheConstitution is extended over the United States, and over nothing else. It cannot be extended over anything...that shall come in hereafter, when they do come in. There is a want of accuracy of ideas in this respect that is quite remarkable among eminent gentlemen,... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 752 pages
...instructed. Let me say that in this general sense there is no such thing as extending the Constitution. The Constitution is extended over the United States...extend over nothing else. It cannot be extended over any thing except over the old States, and the new States that shall come in hereafter, when they do... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 764 pages
...States and over nothing else, and can extend over nothing else. It cannot be extended over any thing except over the old States, and the new States that shall come in hereafter, when they do come in. There is a want of accuracy of ideas in this respect that is quite remarkable among eminent gentlemen,... | |
| Charles-Joseph-Félix Brunet, Charles Brunet - 1890 - 1204 pages
...instructed. Let me say that in this general sense there is no such thing as extending the Constitution. The Constitution is extended over the United States, and over nothing else. It can not be extended over anything except over the old States and the new States that shall come... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1900
...profoundest meaning of our organic law. We can almost hear again the thunder-roll of Webster's voice: "The Constitution is extended over the United States...that shall come in hereafter, when they do come in " (Cong. Globe, 30th Cong., 2d sess., App., p. 273, 1849). We can almost hear Mr. Calhoun's incisive... | |
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