 | Robert A. Goldwin - 1987 - 168 страница
...that the federal government thus had the power to act directly on the people. "It is," he declared, "the people's Constitution, the people's government,...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."4 Webster here stood on controversial historical ground. The Constitution, it was true, had... | |
 | John F. Chilton - 1990 - 116 страница
...over the individual states. His concluding statements have become a part of our rhetorical heritage: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people. . . . Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!" 4.8 THE SECOND NULLIFICATION CRISIS... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 страница
...creature of the State legislatures, or the creature of the people? ... It is, Sir [Calhoun again], the people's Constitution, the people's government,...made by the people, and answerable to the people. ... I hold it to be a popular government, erected by the people; those who administer it responsible... | |
 | Alan G. Hopper - 1995 - 940 страница
...over the individual states. His concluding statements have become a part of our rhetorical heritage: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people.... Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!" The Second Nullification Crisis The final... | |
 | The Editors of Rea - 1995 - 734 страница
...over the individual states. His concluding statements have become a part of our rhetorical heritage: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people.... Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" The Second Nullification Crisis The final... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 страница
...people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention,... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 страница
...people, that is, not the states. Governments are the creatures of the people, both national and state. "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people." Acting in their sovereign capacity, he continued, the people declared that the Constitution shall be... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 страница
...ALEXANDER) MILNE, (1882-1958) British author.Winnie-the-Pooh, in Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 6 (1926). 17 The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. Grammar, which can govern even Kings. MOLIÈRE [JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN], (1622-1673) French dramatist.... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - 1998 - 294 страница
...oration, Daniel Webster had thrown the slogan of the people's sovereignty at Robert Hayne in 1830: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people." When Webster temporized on the fugitive slave issue in 1850, Theodore Parker hurled the same phrases... | |
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 страница
...Daniel Webster's statement in 1 830 that the origin of our government and the source of its power is "the people's constitution, the people's government;...made by the people, and answerable to the people." Lincoln had read Supreme Court Justice John Marshall's opinion, which states: "The government of the... | |
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It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's Government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit... 
