 | United States federal convention - 1819
...danger, by a delay, with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratification—We the said delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the constitution recommended on the seventeenth day of... | |
 | "BARBAROSSA" - 1860
...danger by a delay, with a hope of obtaining amendments, previous to the ratification: WE, the said DELEGATES, in the name and in behalf of the PEOPLE of VIRGINIA, DO, by these presents, ASSENT TO and RATIFY the CONSTITUTION, recommended on the seventeenth day of... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 266 pages
...danger by a delay, with a hope of obtaining amendments, previous to the ratification : WE, the said DELEGATES, in the name and in behalf of the PEOPLE of VIRGINIA, DO, by these presents, ASSENT TO and RATIFY the CONSTITUTION, recommended on the seventeenth day of... | |
 | John Minor Botts - Secession - 1866 - 402 pages
...unconditional, and containing no reservation whatever. The resolution is as follows : " We, the said delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended on the 17th day of September,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1868 - 862 pages
...danger by a delay with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratifications, — We, the said Delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended, on the 17th day of September,... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 386 pages
...danger by a delay with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratification, — We, the said Delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended, on the 17th day of September,... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 606 pages
...into danger by a delay with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratifications, We. the said delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended, on the 17th day of September,... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - United States - 1884
...into danger by delay, with a hope of obtaining amendments previous to the ratification: We, the said delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, •do, by these presents, assent to and ratify the Constitution, recommended on the seventeenth day... | |
 | Nannie Corbin - Oceanographers - 1888 - 326 pages
...of her people, that the powers granted under it might be resumed by them whenever the same should bo perverted to their injury or oppression ; that " no...accepted by their act of signature and tacit agreement tho conditions which Virginia required to be understood as the terms on which sho accepted the Constitution,... | |
 | John William Jones - 1889 - 672 pages
...solemn appeal to the 'Soarcher of all hearts' for tho purity of their intentions, our dologates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,..."But it did not go into operation until the other States—parties to the contract—had accepted by their act of signature and tacit agreement the conditions... | |
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We the said Delegates in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia do by these presents assent to and ratify the Constitution recommended on the... 
