CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

WITH AN ALPHABETICAL ANALYSIS;

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE;

THE PROMINENT POLITICAL ACTS OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON;

ELECTORAL VOTES FOR ALL THE

PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS;

THE HIGH AUTHORITIES AND CIVIL OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT,

FROM MARCH 4, 1789, TO MARCH 3, 1847;

Chronological Narrative of the Several States;

AND OTHER INTERESTING MATTER;

WITH A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE

STATE PAPERS, PUBLIC DOCUMENTS,

AND OTHER SOURCES OF

POLITICAL AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION

AT THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

BY

W. HICKEY.

SECOND EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. & P. G. COLLINS.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1847, by

W. HICKEY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.

то

GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS,

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

AND

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE,

THIS EDITION OF THE CONSTITUTION

IS INSCRIBED BY

W. HICKEY.

"The Constitution in its words is plain and intelligible, and it is meant for the homebred, unsophisticated understandings of our fellow-citizens."

"The people alone are the absolute owners and uncontrollable movers of such sovereignty as human beings can claim to exercise; subject to the eternal and unchangeable rules of justice, of truth, and of good Faith. The moral law is out of its reach; sovereignty cannot violate that, and be more justified than the humblest individual."`

"Yield away the Constitution and the Union, and where are we? Frittered into fragments, and not able to claim one portion of the past as peculiarly our own! Our Union is not merely a blessing; it is a political necessity. We cannot exist without it. I mean, that all of existence which is worth having must depart with it. Our liberties could not endure the incessant conflicts of civil and conterminous strife; our independence would be an unreal mockery, our very memories would turn to bitterness." (Mr. Dallas in defence of the Constitution.)

the use

In Senate of the United States.

Thursday, February 18, 1847.

Resolved, That the secretary be directed to procure for the Senate two thousand copies of the authentic copy of the Constitution, with an analytical index, and compilation of other public documents, recently printed and placed in the hands of the members, provided the price shall not exceed the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per copy.

Resolved, That ten thousand additional copies of the authentic copy of the Constitution, with an analytical index, etc., be procured for the use of the Senate, provided they will be furnished at a deduction of twenty per cent. on the price stated.

Attest,

above

Asbury Dickens, Secretary.

THE provision under which THIS BOOK MAY BE TRANSMITTED BY MAIL FREE OF POSTAGE, by persons having the privilege of franking public documents, is contained in "An act to establish certain post-routes, and for other purposes," approved 3d March, 1847, in the following words :

*Such publications or books as have been or may be published, procured, or purchased by order of either House of Congress, or a joint resolution of the two Houses, shall be considered as public documents, and entitled to be franked as such."