 | Theology - 1877 - 668 pages
...people, and they exclusively, are the source and original of all power in the affairs of state. " It is the people's constitution, the people's government...made by the people and answerable to the people." Our rulers are but the exponents of the public will and sentiment ; they are but the representatives... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1878 - 658 pages
...frora » misconception as to the origin of this government and its true character. It is, sir. tli« people's constitution, the people's government ; made...declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 pages
...it the idea of Freedom.1 Speech at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Boston, May 29, 1850. 1 The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. — Daniel Webster, Speech, 1830. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 'T is heaven alone that is given away, T is... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1902 - 622 pages
...January 26, 1830, as printed in "The Works of Daniel Webster " (Boston, 1851), this sentence occurs : — It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people (III. 321). Lamartine, in his History of the Girondists (London, 1850, Bohu's edition), speaking of... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...government and its true character. It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government, made fur ڰ4 ڰ4 4 peopie of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...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...declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The states are unquestionably sovereign,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...ratified it, but it was proposed for adoption to popular conventions.'' Webster, in 1830, spoke of " the people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people." President Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, speaks of " the government of the people, by the people,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 pages
...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...United States have declared that this Constitution v. shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposiO tion, or dispute their authority. The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1882 - 740 pages
...Federalists, that the United States was a Nation. It was not the servant of four and twenty masters, but "the people's Constitution, the people's Government...made by the people ; and answerable to the people." It was not " the creature of State Legislatures;" it was the "independent offspring of the popular... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1882 - 828 pages
...vols., 12mo; pp. 728, 942. New York: Harper & Brothers. "No man who believes with Daniel Webster in "the people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," will be drawn to the Memoirs of Prince Mettcrnich by any cord of admiration for his diplomacy or statesmanship.... | |
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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. 
