 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1886 - 652 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the...pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. PUBLIUS. From the New York Packet, Tuesday, December 18, 1787. THE FEDERALIST. No. XXIII. (HAMILTON.)... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...on the one hand, and demanding from them obedience on the other. THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN EMPIRE. — The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. A SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. — I contend that there is a supreme law of the land, consisting of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Law - 1886 - 818 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF TH« PEOPLE." Such is the language, Sir, addressed to the people, while they yet had the Constitution... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1888 - 676 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the...pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. PUBLIUS. From the fine York Packet, Tuesday, December 18, 1787. THE FEDERALIST. No. XXIII. (HAMILTON.)... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1890 - 576 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PKOPLE." Such is the language, Sir, addressed to the people, while they yet had the Constitution under... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 852 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the CONSENT OP THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...determined that the fabric of American empire ought to rest and should rest on the solid basis of Lthe consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow and should flow immediately from the high~ est original fountain of all legitimate authority.1 And,... | |
 | Caleb William Loring - Nullification (States' rights) - 1893 - 196 pages
...the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people." And amongst all the ratifications by the States, there is not one which speaks of the Constitution... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - United States - 1894 - 980 pages
...the foundations of our National Government deeper, than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the...pure original fountain of all legitimate authority. PUBLIUS. NUMBER XXIII. BY MR. HAMILTON. The Neoessitv of a Government, at least equally Energetic with... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...monarchical, government, as Hamilton, declared : " The fabric of American empire ought to rest upon the solid basis of the consent of the people. The...pure original fountain of all legitimate authority." In some of our State Constitutions this doctrine reappears. Thus, in Massachusetts, the Bill of Rights... | |
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The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. 
