 | United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 sidor
...people; and is declared to be ordained 'in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity.' The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 988 sidor
...people; and is leclared to be ordained in order to form a more perfect union, establish Hice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity." Wheaton's Rep. vol. 4,/>. 403. The same principles are recognized as being true in the late admirable... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 sidor
...people; and is declared to be ordained 'in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity.' The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 sidor
...absolutely necessary to attain the objects declared in the instrument, and those were expressed to be "to form a more perfect union; to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure for ever the blessings of liberty."... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 710 sidor
...reported a letter to accompany the plan to Congress. REPORT* We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 sidor
...established' in the name of the people, and is declared to be ordained in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice^ insure domestic tranquillity, and...blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity.'' " The assent of the States in their- sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1841 - 630 sidor
...could form no exception, even of personal dislike. That constitution was adopted by those states in order to form a more perfect union; to establish justice; insure domestic tranquillity; provide for the common defence, and promote the general welfare. And by its provisions, which are the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1841 - 632 sidor
...could form no exception, even of personal dislike. That constitution was adopted by those states in order to form a more perfect union; to establish justice; insure domestic tranquillity; provide for the common defence, and promote the general welfare. And by its provisions, which are the... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 256 sidor
...preamble, as they reported it, is in the following words : ' We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to... | |
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The government proceeds directly from the people; is 'ordained and established' in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained 'in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings... 
