 | 1861 - 624 páginas
...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."... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1861 - 52 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1861 - 774 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 38 páginas
...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 - 1861 - 36 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 páginas
...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... | |
 | Missouri. Convention - 1861 - 336 páginas
...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 - 1862 - 438 páginas
...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,...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 - 600 páginas
...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,...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 - 602 páginas
...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...remains with them, and at their will. That therefore uo right of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by the Congress, by... | |
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Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of 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... 
