| Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - 420 páginas
...their ratification with a declaration of rights. "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, * * * do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever they shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, etc." This shows very clearly the opinion... | |
| Raleigh C. Minor - 1913 - 212 páginas
...follow that the expression used in Virginia's ordinance of ratification is equivalent to a declaration that "the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of each of the United States, severally, may be resumed by them, that is, by the people of each State,... | |
| Edward Samuel Corwin - 1914 - 204 páginas
...convention. That body adopted the following declaration : "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, . . . do in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia...whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression."35 To cite this declaration as an assertion of the right of secession or indeed of any... | |
| Matthew Page Andrews - 1914 - 468 páginas
...that the central government might use its power to oppress the citizens of a State or of a section. granted under the Constitution, being derived from...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Final ratifiNew York incorporated a like provision in her form state",bf787of ratification of the Federal... | |
| John Anderson Richardson - 1914 - 616 páginas
...The State of Virginia in her ordinance of ratification used these memorable words: "The delegates do declare and make known that the powers granted under...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." New York in her ratifying ordinance... | |
| 1914 - 804 páginas
...Rhode Island. The Virginia resolution is as follows: We the Delegates of the people of Virginia. . . . Do In the name and In behalf of the People of Virginia declare and mnke known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the I'eople of the United... | |
| 1915 - 524 páginas
...Virginia, duly eletced in pursuance of a recommendation from the general assembly, and now in convention; do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, etc, "We, the said Delegates, in... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - 1915 - 478 páginas
...ratification used exactly the same language as Rhode Island. Virginia declared in her act of ratification, "That the powers granted under the Constitution being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Congress at once proposed twelve Amendments to the States for adoption, ten of which were immediately... | |
| 1915 - 556 páginas
...claimed that Virginia retained her sovereignty in toto, when, in ratifying the constitution, she declared that the powers granted under the constitution, being...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The distinction between the actual, though dormant, sovereignty of the people of Virginia and the imaginary... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1915 - 250 páginas
...this ordinance are as follows : "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected, etc., ... do in the name, and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Mr. Webster... | |
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