 | Edward J. Bloustein - 206 páginas
...Still another in this category of constitutional provisions is the statement in the preamble: "We, the people of 'the United States . . . do ordain and establish this constitution." It is at this point that the radical character of Meiklejohn's structural analysis of the Constitution... | |
 | Edward Francis Cooke - 2002 - 188 páginas
...written constitutions. This principle is clearly stated in the Preamble of the US Constitution: "We the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Many of our state constitutions 1! begin in a similar fashion. The... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 2002 - 568 páginas
...sovereignty, and conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared people with becoming dignity, .' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.' Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country ; and in the language of sovereignty,... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 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," etc. By "the people of the United States," here mentioned, the Constitution intends all "the people"... | |
 | Edward Avery Harriman - 2003 - 274 páginas
...PARTIES TO THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES CREATE? THE preamble to the United States Constitution says that "the people of The United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." By this Constitution the people of the United States did three things:... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 2004 - 762 páginas
...the other hand, the constitution itself, as decidedly declares that it is made by the people. " We THE PEOPLE of the United States, ... do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." It is made for the States; but it is the people who make it. The... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 páginas
...James Madison, The Federalist (orig., 1787-1788; New York: Modern Library, 1937), p. 3. 40 Thus "We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The Republican Moment 67 Americans assumed that their constitution... | |
 | Duncan Watts - 2003 - 354 páginas
...people - popular sovereignty. The opening words of the American document establish this clearly: 'We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution'. They echo the ideas associated with the French writer and philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, who argued... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) - 2005 - 224 páginas
...to the delegated powers of national governance. This is very clear in a reading of the Preamble: "We the People of the United States, , do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America." Thus, when the Southern States split away from the Union and established... | |
 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 páginas
...proper sovereignty, and conscious of the plenitude of it, they declared with becoming dignity, 'We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.'" In his view, it was important not to be misled by European notions. In America, the people were "sovereigns... | |
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We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. 
