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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
retained the right to withdraw the powers which she had granted, whenever the same shall be perverted to her injury or oppression. North Carolina urged the following amendment—the same, substantially, as that urged by Virginia and Massachusetts: That each State in the Union shall respectively [not aggregately] retain every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by this Constitution delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the Federal Government. Pennsylvania guarded her sovereignty by insisting upon the following amendment: All the rights of sovereignty which are not, by the said Constitution, expressly and plainly vested in the Congress, shall be deemed to remain with, and shall be exercised by the several States in the Union. The result of this jealousy on the part of the States was the adoption of the 10th amendment to the Constitution of the United States as follows: The powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor
Fort Henry (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
h people, but in her own name. She was not jealous of the remaining people of the United States, as fractional parts of a whole, of which she was herself a fraction, but she was jealous of them as States; as so many foreign peoples, with whom she was contracting. The powers not delegated were to be reserved to those delegating them, to wit: the several States; that is to say, to each and every one of the States. Virginia fought long and sturdily against adopting the Constitution at all. Henry, Mason, Tyler, and a host of other giants raised their powerful voices against it, warning their people, in thunder tones, that they were rushing upon destruction. Tyler even went so far as to say that British tyranny would have been more tolerable. So distasteful to her was the foul embrace that was tendered her, that she not only recommended an amendment of the Constitution, similar to that which was recommended by Massachusetts, making explicit reservation of her sovereignty, but she a
Patrick Henry (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
several States united by this instrument. And this is the foundation that the Northern advocates of a consolidated government build upon, when they declare that the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, adopted the Constitution, and thus gave the fundamental law to the States, instead of the States giving it to the Federal Government. It is well known that this phrase, We, the people, &c., be came a subject of discussion in the Virginia ratifying Convention. Patrick Henry, with the prevision of a prophet, was, as we have seen, bitterly opposed to the adoption of the Constitution. He was its enemy a l'outrance. Not having been a member of the Convention, of 1787, that framed the instrument, and being unacquainted with the circumstances above detailed, relative to the change which had been made in the phraseology of its Preamble, he attacked the Constitution on the very ground since assumed by Webster and Story, to wit: that the instrument itself proclaime
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
of government, formed by the people of the United States, as contradistinguished from the States. as eminently the case with regard to these United States. No one can read the Journal and Debates s follows: The powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by itained and established by the people of the United States in the aggregate! From that day to this, d States was ordained by the people of the United States in the aggregate; nor did the Preamble to itting the instrument to the people of the United States in the aggregate, and thereby accomplishin, when they declare that the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, adopted t. And again: Every Constitution for the United States must, inevitably, consist of a great varie It is not possible that the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, ordained —by them at all, but by the people of the United States in the aggregate? As remarked by Mr. Madi[19 more...]
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
re sent thither by the States, and not by the people of the United States. The Convention of 1787, which formed the Constitution, was equally composed of members sent to Philadelphia by the States. James Madison was chosen by the people of Virginia and not by the people of New York; and Alexander Hamilton was chosen by the people of New York, and not by the people of Virginia. Every article, section, and paragraph of the Constitution was voted for, or against, by States; the little State of Delaware, not much larger than a single county of New York, off-setting the vote of that great State. And when the Constitution was formed, to whom was it submitted for ratification? Was there any convention of the people of the United States in the aggregate, as one nation, called for the purpose of considering it? Did not each State, on the contrary, call its own convention? and did not some of the States accept it, and some of them refuse to accept it? It was provided that when nine S
Annapolis (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
es, and not by the people of the United States in the aggregate. There was no such people known as the people of the United States, in the aggregate, at the time of the formation of the Constitution. If there is any such people now, it was formed by the Constitution. But this is not the question. The question now is, who formed the Constitution, not what was formed by it? If it was formed by the States, admit our adversaries, it may be broken by the States. The delegates who met at Annapolis were sent thither by the States, and not by the people of the United States. The Convention of 1787, which formed the Constitution, was equally composed of members sent to Philadelphia by the States. James Madison was chosen by the people of Virginia and not by the people of New York; and Alexander Hamilton was chosen by the people of New York, and not by the people of Virginia. Every article, section, and paragraph of the Constitution was voted for, or against, by States; the little S
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the North, have been Daniel Webster and Joseph Story, both from Massachusetts. Webster was, for a long time, a Senator in Congress, and Store as jealous, in this respect, as the Southern States. Next to Massachusetts, New Hampshire has been, perhaps, the most fanatical and bittereclare this truth, and thus put it beyond cavil in the future. Massachusetts expressed herself as follows, in connection with her ratificatie by them exercised. Webster and Story had not yet arisen in Massachusetts, to teach the new doctrine that the Constitution had been formeted-States, in contra-distinction to the people of the States. Massachusetts did not speak in the name of any such people, but in her own nat of the Constitution, similar to that which was recommended by Massachusetts, making explicit reservation of her sovereignty, but she annexemendment—the same, substantially, as that urged by Virginia and Massachusetts: That each State in the Union shall respectively [not aggregate
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
hat British tyranny would have been more tolerable. So distasteful to her was the foul embrace that was tendered her, that she not only recommended an amendment of the Constitution, similar to that which was recommended by Massachusetts, making explicit reservation of her sovereignty, but she annexed a condition to her ratification, to the effect that she retained the right to withdraw the powers which she had granted, whenever the same shall be perverted to her injury or oppression. North Carolina urged the following amendment—the same, substantially, as that urged by Virginia and Massachusetts: That each State in the Union shall respectively [not aggregately] retain every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not by this Constitution delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the Federal Government. Pennsylvania guarded her sovereignty by insisting upon the following amendment: All the rights of sovereignty which are not, by the said Constitutio
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nefit of the whole, there can have been no merger. This was eminently the case with regard to these United States. No one can read the Journal and Debates of the Philadelphia Convention, or those of the several State Conventions to which the Constitution was submitted for adoption, without being struck with the scrupulous care with which all the States guarded their sovereignty. The Northern States were quite as jealous, in this respect, as the Southern States. Next to Massachusetts, New Hampshire has been, perhaps, the most fanatical and bitter of the former States, in the prosecution of the late war against the South. That State, in her Constitution, adopted in 1792, three years after the Federal Constitution went into operation, inserted the following provision, among others, in her declaration of principles: The people of this Common-wealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter sha
Alexander Hamilton (search for this): chapter 2
and not by the people of New York; and Alexander Hamilton was chosen by the people of New York, and not by tect of establishing a consolidated government—Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris among the number. On tthe Father of the Constitution. Next to him, Alexander Hamilton bore the most conspicuous part in procuring it to be adopted by the people. Hamilton, as is well known, did not believe much in republics; and least of alr of the federal form; and no one knew better than Hamilton the kind of government which had been established. Now let us hear what Hamilton, an unwilling, but an honest witness, says on this subject. Of the eighty-five articles in the Federalist, Hamilton wrote no less than fifty. Having failed to procure the establishmenthe Federalist, we can scarcely go amiss in quoting Hamilton, to the point that the Constitution is a compact b the parties to the compact. Thus, we do not hear Hamilton, any more than Madison, talking of a people of the
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