 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1854 - 862 pages
...other powers than such as -were expressed ' in it. . The Convention said, " We, the delegates, &c. do declare ' and make known, that the powers granted...being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - Constitutional law - 1856 - 680 pages
...the language which had been used by the New York convention. The ratification of Virginia declared that "the powers granted under the constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." No language can be more precise... | |
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - American literature - 1858 - 424 pages
...in the Virginia form of ratification, that the delegates decided that they "do, in the name, and on behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." There is no sophisticating this declaration. The " people of Virginia " declare that " the powers granted... | |
 | William Archer Cocke - Constitutional history - 1858 - 444 pages
...aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the States to be by them exercised." 10th. Virginia. — "Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 140 pages
...the act of ratification. That preamble declares it to be an "impression" of the people of Virginia, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed BY THEM, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression. The ordinance of secession, passed... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 576 pages
...particular, than any other State. Her convention, assembled to ratify the Constitution, "in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Is this language which describes... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 578 pages
...particular, than any other State. Her convention, assembled to ratify the Constitution, " in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitntion, being derived from the people of Ike United Stales, may be resumed by them whenever the... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...of the people of Virginia, de" clare and make known that the powers granted under the Consti" tution being derived from the people of the United States,...whensoever the same shall be perverted to their " injury and oppression, and that every power not granted thereby " remains with them, and at their will : &c."... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1861 - 684 pages
...that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted...and that every power, not granted thereby, remains irith them, and at their trill; that, therefore, no right, of any denomination, can be cancelled, abridged,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Fourth of July celebrations - 1861 - 52 pages
...the act of ratification. That preamble declares it to be an "impression" of the people of Virginia, that the powers granted under the constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression. The ordinance of secession passed... | |
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Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... 
