 | Caleb William Loring - Nullification (States' rights) - 1893 - 196 pages
...people, and not to the State governments and legislatures. It was from Webster's declaration, " It is the people's Constitution, the people's government;...made by the people and answerable to the people," that Lincoln took the closing words of his short immortal Gettysburg address, and applied them to the... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 406 pages
...implied in the assertion that the people originate and maintain the government for their own welfare. "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," said Daniel Webster, in his second speech on Foote's Eesolution, January 26, 1830. "There is what I... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - United States - 1893 - 428 pages
...the enemy and they are ours. — Perry. To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. — WL Many. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. — Daniel Wcbster. We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the... | |
 | William Eustis Russell - Massachusetts - 1893 - 502 pages
...tested, that it has proved to be sound, and that it best secures what Webster felicitously called, "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." Three hundred or more subordinate public officers, now under divided control or none, would thus be... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - Christian socialism - 1893 - 392 pages
...implied in the assertion that the people originate and maintain the government for their own welfare. "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," said Daniel Webster, in his second speech on Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830. "There is what I... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 408 pages
...true character. It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government, made for the people, 5 made by the people, and answerable to the people....this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign,... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 392 pages
...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, the people's government, made for the people, 5 made by the people, and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared thaV'this... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 880 pages
...reply to Hayne said, " It is the people's coustitution; the people's government; made for the people; by the people; and answerable to the people. The people...that this constitution shall be the supreme law." Each ratification set forth the idea that it proceeded from a convention of the people of a state.... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - Oratory - 1895 - 460 pages
...contract; and states the origin of all power in words that have been perpetuated in Lincoln's paraphrase, "It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people." Other forms of deliberative reasoning succeed to these, by example from history at home and abroad,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 394 pages
...feature of the Republic ? It is " a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." It is the people's constitution, the people's government;...made by the people ; and answerable to the people. — Daniel Webster. "A government of the people, by the people, and for the people " has been the ideal... | |
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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... 
