 | Michael J. Perry - 2001 - 286 páginas
...Amendment, but to demonstrate that the ways in which (in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution) "We the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" are sometimes different from, and more complex than, those authorized... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - 1999 - 408 páginas
...compact or league. No, it speaks out honestly and to the purpose. It plainly and broadly declares: "We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." This device of anarchy and confusion was exploded in the very beginning.... | |
 | Mason Lowance - 2000 - 390 páginas
...constitution? The preamble to the constitution has told us in the plainest possible terms, to wit, that "We, the people of the United States" "do ordain and establish this constitution," &c. By "the people of the United States," here mentioned, the constitution intends all "the people"... | |
 | Moorhead Kennedy, Ralph Gordon Hoxie, Brenda Repland - 332 páginas
...This two-contract conception subsequently received expression in the preamble to the Constitution: "We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The transformation from British colonies to an independent, constitutional... | |
 | Peter M. Tiersma - 1999 - 340 páginas
...modifies legal institutions or relations. Consider the preamble to the United States Constitution: We the people of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The same usage is reflected in many enactment clauses, which give... | |
 | Carol Gould, Pasquale Paquino - 2001 - 178 páginas
...The US Constitution attributes the constitutive power to the people in its famous opening words: "We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The French Declaration des droits de I 'homme et du citoyen, enacted... | |
 | Daniel Lazare - 2001 - 172 páginas
...the people, une et indivisible, as the sovereign power. But did it really? Certainly, the words "We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" suggested as much since they seemed to establish the people as the... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 
