 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 страница
...absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception as to the origin of this government and its true character. It is, sir, the people's Constitution,...this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are unquestionably sovereign,... | |
 | Craig R. Smith - 2005 - 310 страница
..."keystone of the arch" for Webster. In a slashing attack on states' rights, he got to the nub of the issue: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."14 This remarkable sentence crystallized Webster's vision that "the people" had created the... | |
 | Larry Kramer - 2004 - 380 страница
...the stain of Hartford39 — invoked "the people" in ways that would have made even Jefferson blush: It is, sir, the People's Constitution, the People's...made by the People; and answerable to the People. . . . We are all agents of the same power, the People — I hold it to be a popular Government, erected... | |
 | Jerome McDuffie, Gary Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 2012 - 548 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 Cris The final... | |
 | Gary Land, Ronald Lettieri - 2005 - 516 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...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people — Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!" The Second Nullification Crisis The... | |
 | Robert Upshaw - 2005 - 312 страница
...totalitarian ideology that specified the ideal structure of each. CHAPTER 15: CASE STUDY, US CITIZENS It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER, SPEECH IN THE SENATE, JANUARY 26, 1830 In order to illustrate how, in a given nation-state,... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 705 страница
...is this true? asked Webster. He answered by paraphrasing Marshal's words in M'Culoch vs. Maryland: "It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's...people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.1 The people . . have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law.2 . . Who is... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 2010 - 505 страница
...makes the central government the servant of 24 masters of different wills and purpose, explaining that: This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from...made by the people; and answerable to the people. Three decades later, Lincoln, who always held this speech close to his heart, would echo the reasoning... | |
 | Mark Latham - 2006 - 268 страница
...phraseology from Daniel Webster, who, four years earlier, in his famous reply to Robert Hayne, had spoken of 'The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people'. Webster may have borrowed his phraseology from President James Monroe, who had given voice to the same... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 страница
...Thirty-three years before Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, Daniel Webster spoke of "people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people." An 1841 essay on the American Revolution by Asher Robbins concluded that "the most powerful, the most... | |
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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... 
