...of ' We, the States.' iStala are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If tho States bo not the agents of this compact, it must be one great...national government of the people of all the States." The like suggestion will be found in various places in Mr. Elliot's Debates in other States. See 1...

...leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people ? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me...ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, He, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation....

...Heury said, "That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear." " The language [is] ' Wo, the people,' instead of ' We, the States.' [States are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated...

...danger of such a government is, to my mind, very striking. . . . Who authorized them (the framers) to speak the language of we the people, instead of we the states ? States are the characteristic and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it...

...convention, objected because the Constitution said " We, the people," instead of" We, the States " ; and if the States be not the agents of this compact, it...national government of the people of all the States."' 1 2 Elliot, 526. ' 3 Elliot, 23. " It had an awful squinting towards monarchy." " The federal convention...

...and demanded to know why it said " We, the people" instead of "We, the States." "If," he continued, "the States be not the agents of this Compact, it...be one great, consolidated, National Government of all the States." But the "secret proceedings," afterwards published, showed that the final draft of...

...is demonstrably clear Give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people ? . . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of We, the people, instead of We, the States ? .... If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated National...

...to demand, What right had they to say, ' We the people ' ? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me...national government, of the people of all the States. Have they said, ' We, the States ' ? Have they made a proposal of a compact between States ? If they...

...before? — when Patrick Henry, speaking of the framers of the Constitution, passionately demanded, — "Who authorized them to speak the language of We,...? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederacy. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national...

...people ? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We the people, instead of, We the States ? If the States be not the agents of this compact, it...National government, of the people of all the States." It was argued, on the other hand, by Randolph, Madison, and others, that the government under the Articles...