 | United States. Congress - 1895 - 208 pages
...needy, and the oppressed. Like Daniel Webster, he believed the Government of the United States to be the people's Government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. And I say it reverently, "The common people heard him gladly." And while it may be truthfully said... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1895 - 220 pages
...needy, and the oppressed. Like Daniel Webster, he believed the Government of the United States to be the people's Government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. And I say it reverently, "The common people heard him gladly." And while it may be truthfully said... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 442 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...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or deny their authority. The States are, unquestionably,... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 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...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the. proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1896 - 52 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...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...rule the great that cannot reach the small. c. SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. V. Canto II. St. 51. al Works. Personal Talk. Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles d. DANIEL WEBSTER — Second Speech on Ibot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. When my eyes ihall be turned... | |
 | 1896 - 418 pages
...translation), is the chief pest of democratic countries. " The people's government " of which Webster spoke, " made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," must conform to the laws of politics and economics. Every citizen should understand somewhat of these... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1897 - 322 pages
...people's Constitution, the people's Constitution government, made for the people, made by the theory. people, and answerable to the people. The people of...that this Constitution shall be the supreme law." It is plain that the Constitution does not rest simply upon the consent of the majority of the nation.... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 380 pages
...not perish from the earth," is a paraphrase of a sentence of that speech: "It is, sir," said Webster, "the people's government; made for the people, made...by the people, and answerable to the people." The Unionism of that speech animated every American soldier during the rebellion. Webster's theory of 1830... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - Law - 1987 - 168 pages
...that the federal government thus had the power to act directly on the people. "It is," he declared, "the people's Constitution, the people's government,...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."4 Webster here stood on controversial historical ground. The Constitution, it was true, had... | |
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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. 
