 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, Benjamin Franklin De Costa - United States - 1886 - 870 pages
...exclusively Federalist, Randolph, Nicholas, Madison, Marshall and Corbin, contains these words : " 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, and every power not granted thereby,... | |
 | John Anderson Richardson - Confederate States of America - 1914 - 616 pages
...The State of Virginia in her ordinance of ratification used these memorable words: "The delegates do declare and make known that the powers granted under...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." New York in her ratifying ordinance... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 524 pages
...duly eletced in pursuance of a recommendation from the general assembly, and now in convention; do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, etc, "We, the said Delegates, in... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1915 - 478 pages
...ratification used exactly the same language as Rhode Island. Virginia declared in her act of ratification, "That the powers granted under the Constitution being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Congress at once proposed twelve Amendments to the States for adoption, ten of which were immediately... | |
 | Virginia - 1915 - 556 pages
...claimed that Virginia retained her sovereignty in toto, when, in ratifying the constitution, she declared that the powers granted under the constitution, being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The distinction between the actual, though dormant, sovereignty of the people of Virginia and the imaginary... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1915 - 250 pages
...ordinance are as follows : "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected, etc., ... 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." Mr. Webster... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1915 - 608 pages
...ratification of the Constitution these words occur: "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, do declare and make known that the powers granted under...being derived from the people of the United States, rmy be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that... | |
 | Matthew Page Andrews - United States - 1916 - 450 pages
...Union before the government went into effect. Virginia ratified the Constitution with the proviso: "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." New York made a similar proviso.... | |
 | Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - Constitutions - 1916 - 446 pages
...is stated, to secede, when ratifying the constitution. The delegates in Virginia held that the power granted under the constitution, being derived from...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, every power not granted thereby... | |
 | Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, Mary Cornelia Thompson Hamilton - Children - 1917 - 246 pages
...right to withdraw, Virginia declaring, " that the powers granted under the Constitution, being truly derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." No one questioned this right openly,... | |
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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... 
