 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...the right of withdrawal, they contented themselves with proclaiming a very self-evident truism : ' 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 and oppression ;' which means simply that the... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 pages
...suspend the operation of the constitution as to itself; but the language of Virginia was explicit. " The powers granted under the constitution, being derived...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury and oppression." There are times and there are... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Secession - 1861 - 38 pages
...perpetual law, was in all cases absolute. The language of Virginia was most explicit on this point. " The powers granted under the Constitution, being derived...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." That the people of the United... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - History - 1861 - 36 pages
...perpetual law, was in all cases absolute. The language of Virginia was most explicit on this point. " 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." That the people of the United... | |
 | Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 336 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 to their injury or oppression," &c., &c You observe, sir, "derived from the people of the United States?" And this is the declaration... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon — do, in their name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that every power not granted... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, DO, in their name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that every power not granted... | |
 | 1862 - 628 pages
...prepared as well :is the most mature deliberation Imlh enabled us, to decide thereon, DO. in their name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare...Constitution, being derived from the people of the Uniteil States, may be returned by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... | |
 | Charles Edward Rawlins - Constitutional history - 1862 - 252 pages
...being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us to decide thereon, do, in their name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Constitutional law - 1862 - 86 pages
...and meaning of that instrument. Virginia herself, in her ratification, adopts a similar language : " the powers granted under the constitution being derived from the people of the United States," not from the States. This, then, is the constitution ; and how, upon these facts, any argument can... | |
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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... 
