...written — until approved and ratified by a sufficient number of States. The meaning of the preamble, " We, the people of the United States .... do ordain and establish this Constitution," is ascertained, fixed, and defined by the final article : " The ratification of the conventions of...

...State making a compact called a constitution. The very language of the constitution is decisive : ' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution.' The States did not make a compact to be broken when any one pleased, but the people ordained and established...

...written — until approved and ratified by a sufficient number of States. The meaning of the preamble, " We, the people of the United States .... do ordain and establish this Constitution," is ascertained, fixed, and defined by the final article : " The ratification of the conventions of...

...State making a compact called a constitution. The very language of the constitution is decisive : ' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution.' The States did not make a compact to be broken when any one pleased, but the people ordained and established...

...State making a compact called a Constitution. The very language of the Constitution is decisive: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution." The States did not make a compact to be broken when any one pleased, but the people ordained and established...

...authority that can be appealed to, expressly declares its origin in these words of the preamble : '' We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution." Had it been the work of the States, this declaration would have been a falsehood, and would not have...

...after the war. At one time even at periods of the greatest danger, § 371. The preamble declares: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." It is, as we shall hereafter see more fully, 1 the imposition by...

...pronouns are sometimes used in apposition for the purpose of identifying the person of a noun ; as, " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." A common is often placed after a proper name in apposition ; as,...

...emphatically speaks of it as a solemn ordinance and establishment of government. The language is: " We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." Com. on the Constitution (ЛЬг. ed.), 117. And again, page 119,...

...fair application to the great charter of our Union. The people themselves have in this case declared that " We, the people of the United States" do ordain and establish this constitution for " the United States of America." Who, then, were the people of the United States in 1789, by whom,...