 My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation....  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 2281924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 562 pages
...Government. ' ' Give me leave to inquire," said Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention, "who authorised them to speak the language of 'We, the people,' instead...the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. " "I stumble at the threshold, ' ' said Samuel Adams, on first reading the document. "I meet with a... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1905 - 396 pages
...Mujurlty [ | Efcnly Olrldcd i '... ft CO . right," he exclaimed, "had they to say, We, the people? . . . Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states?" He declared that the Constitution established a consolidated government, and that the sovereignty of... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 pages
...leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people 1 My poli tical curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to say, We, tlie people, instead of We, the States t States are the characteristics and the soul of a... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - 2008 - 121 pages
...curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorised them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead...consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.33 The clearest minds among the Federalists agreed that states are the soul of a confederacy.... | |
 | John Forester - 1987 - 364 pages
...right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for public welfare, leads me to ask: who authorized them...the language of We, the people, instead of, We, the states?"26 Ultimately this inversion of the republican ideal of federalism into a unit of liberal pluralism... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1989 - 316 pages
...Virginia debates: [Wjhat 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. H. STORING, WHAT THE ANTIFEDERALISTS WERE FOR 12 (181) (quoting Henry). Henry was a better prophet... | |
 | Gary C. Bryner, Noel B. Reynolds - 1987 - 206 pages
...the people. instead of the states, of America. " "States," said Henry, "are the characteristics and soul of a confederation. If the states be not the...national government, of the people of all the states." Other Antifederalists agreed. "Instead of being thirteen republics, under a federal head," wrote the... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, Dharma - 1992 - 276 pages
...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...States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1992 - 322 pages
...after Henry opened the case for the opposition on June 4 with his famous attack upon the Constitution: "Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of We, the states?" 39 Randolph led the answer for the Federalists. Randolph's desertion led the Antifederalists to assert... | |
 | Edward Watts - 1998 - 246 pages
...appropriation: "What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me...authorized them to speak the language of We, the people?" (122). Even though the ratifying convention had been specifically elected for that purpose, Henry objects... | |
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