 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...explicit guarantee against consolidation, and accompanied the demand with the following declaration : " 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, and that every power not granted... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 782 pages
...explicit guarantee against consolidation, and accompanied the demand with the following declaration : " 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, and that every power not granted... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 688 pages
...being prepared, as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...and make known, that the powers granted under the Constiiutioo, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...Virginia did, as a sovereign commonwealth, accompany the ratification with this solemn protest : " that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the united states [will] be RESUMED by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." [Ibid.... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the united states [will] be RESUMED by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." [Ibid. 656.] Of right, she could only speak for herself in this matter, which she did, by uttering... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 668 pages
...being prepared, aa well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, — DO, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, thnt the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 284 pages
...of adopting the Constitution, passed an Act in Convention, on the 26th of June, 1788, which 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.' Down to 1860, and so long as the... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...members. The form of the ratification gave rise later to interminable discussions. Virginia had declared that " the powers granted under the Constitution being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same may be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that every power not granted... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 568 pages
...members. The form of the ratification gave rise later to interminable discussions. Virginia had declared that " the powers granted under the Constitution being...derived from the people of the United States, may bo resumed by them whenever the same may be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that every... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - United States - 1884 - 666 pages
...Annexed, in the words following. " The powers granted under the Constitution," so ran the ratification, "being derived from the people of the United States,...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The saving here in favor of a rescission of the Constitution, in the discretion of the people, applies... | |
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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... 
