 | Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1822 - 1122 pages
...powers would have been used to provide for the common defence to protect the State against invasion, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to them and their posterity. At a moment, then, when a war, commenced by our national rulers, is prosecuted... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 778 pages
...expressed only as to the great and general objects of its institution; among which the most prominent are, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to adopt such means as Congress may deem best calculated to secure to ourselves and to our posterity the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 778 pages
...expressed only as to the great and general objects of its institution; among which the most prominent are, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to adopt such means as Congress may deem best calculated to secure to ourselves and to our posterity the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 696 pages
...more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity. Can it be said that the anticipations of our forefathers, who looked to effect... | |
 | 1832 - 496 pages
...communities, with considerable diversities of municipal legislation, they adopted a government of com' common defence, to promote the general welfare, and...secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity. Is there one of these objects but includes, in its very conception, the power and... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1835 - 496 pages
...so delegated would be used to provide for the common defence, to protect the state against invasion, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to them and their posterity. At the time, then, when a war, commenced by our national rulers, is * The... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 pages
...more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity. Can it be said that the anticipations of our forefathers, who looked to effect... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1888 - 576 pages
...be for their common advantage to ordain and establish a common government or constitution, in order to " provide for the common defence, to promote the...general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity." With these objects and intentions these thirteen sovereignties... | |
 | Angelina Emily Grimké - HISTORY - 1838 - 138 pages
...that instrument, the great objects for which it was framed are-tleclared to-be 'to establish justice, to promote the general 'welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to us and to our posterity..' The slave laws are flagrant violations of these fundamental principles.... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - Slavery - 1839 - 64 pages
...to the constitution, that it was adopted "to establish justice," "to ensure domestic tranquility," "to promote the general welfare," "and to secure the blessings of liberty." But every law which has been enacted against the slave has done directly contrary to this. The laws... | |
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It was adopted, as declared in its preamble, " to form a more perfect Union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to the people who ordained... 
