 | Fitzwilliam Sargent - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 204 pages
...adoption or rejection of the proposed Constitution, in 1788, in the following words : — " The powers under the Constitution being derived from the people...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." We admit this declaration ; and the Constitution, as we have just stated, points out the mode by which... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...that Virginia, in accepting the Constitution, declared that the powers granted under that instrument " being derived from the people of the United States,...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." I referred, also, to the fact that New York had adopted the Constitution upon the same condition and... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...that Virginia, in accepting the Constitution, declared that the powers granted under that instrument " being derived from the people of the United States,...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." I referred, also, to the fact that New York had adopted the Constitution upon the same condition and... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...of Virginia, &c., do, iifcthe name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 350 pages
...to decide thereon, do, in the name and on behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United Stat™, may be resumed by them whemoc.ofr tlv, same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...language of Virginia, uttered when she gave her adhesion to the General Government. She then declared that "the powers granted under the Constitution, being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." In this statement no allusion is made to the reserved and sovereign right of the individual States to... | |
 | John Welsford Cowell - United States - 1865 - 46 pages
...delegates of the people of Virginia DO, in their name and on behalf cj the people of Virginia, declare that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people, of the United States, &c. &c.' The question you put is twofold — 1st, whether the word ' people,' which, in each of the... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - United States - 1865 - 558 pages
...behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted Ddmlu. VoL in. p. 653. under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." 1They declare,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...elected, etc., etc., do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that " the powers of Government may be re-assumed by the people whenever... | |
 | John Minor Botts - History - 1866 - 416 pages
...Virginia, elected do, in the name and on the behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them" (the people of the United States) " whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... | |
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Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression... 
