 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 Seiten
...level of decorum: "In all our deliberations on this subject [differences among the several states] we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to...every true American, the consolidation of our Union." A gentlemen's agreement over language is also a national consensus in spite of difference. The litany... | |
 | Riker, William Harrison Riker, William H. Riker, William H.. Riker, John Paul Mueller - 1996 - 308 Seiten
...ratification. His strongest remarks were probably that "the greatest interest of every true American" was "the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence." The 423 words of this letter, appended to the Constitution, were printed at least 76 times (table 6.1,... | |
 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 286 Seiten
...United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most adviseable. — In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 Seiten
...wrote that "In all our deliberations . . . we kept steadily in our view . . . the consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. . . . The Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that neutral... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 Seiten
...Washington, in his letter of transmittal, had these further words: "In all our deliberations . . . we kept steadily in our view that which appears to...Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, perhaps our national existence." And he concluded with the hope and belief that the Constitution "may... | |
 | Mark Robert Killenbeck - 2002 - 214 Seiten
...the Union" were, accordingly, to be "fully and effectively vested" in that entity, consistent with "that which appears to us the greatest interest of...prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence."188 And individual state interests that might prove "particularly disagreeable or injurious... | |
 | John Lauritz Larson - 2001 - 348 Seiten
...there was no higher purpose in the founding than " ''the consolidation of our Union [Clay's emphasis], in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.' " Especially with the rise of the West, where a scarcity of capital and enormous developmental needs... | |
 | Robert A. McGuire - 2003 - 416 Seiten
...difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily...felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 2008 - 361 Seiten
...states, "their Situation Extent Habits and particular Interests," the Convention had, Morris wrote, "kept steadily in our View that which appears to us...Prosperity Felicity Safety perhaps our national Existence." Above all, the Constitution now presented was, in Morris's best diplomatic gloss, the "Result of a... | |
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In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. 
