...volume 1, page 224, where the first and original draft of the Constitution is given in this form : " We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...for the government of ourselves and our posterity." That was the form in which the draft was brought in. It was then referred to a revisory committee,...

...any soil. The South-Carolina Plan was a draft of a Federal government, and began with these words: "We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...following Constitution for the government of ourselves and posterity." The New-Jersey Plan, like the Virginia, was a mere set of resolutions, numerically arrsft1ged,...

...any sort. The South-Carolina Plan was a draft of a Federal government, and began with these words : " We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Prpvidence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,, Virginia,...

...preamble, as it unanimously passed the Convention, on the 7th of August, 1787, was in these words : — * " We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...declare, and establish the following Constitution," etc. This shows what was the meaning of the Convention. It was we the people of each State. The change...

...it unanimously passed the Convention, on the 7th of August, 1787, was in these words : — * " Wo, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...declare, and establish the following Constitution," etc. This shows what was the meaning of the Convention. It was we the people of each State. The change...

...1765. 28 pp. fol. Annapolis, Jonas Green, 1766. Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode...Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia....

...pp. fol. АппароШ, Joña» Green, 1766. Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode...Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia....

...welfare.' " Mr. PINCKNEY'S PLAN. — " We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, &c., do ordain, declare, and establish the following CONSTITUTION, for the government* of ourselves and posterity." In Committee of the Whole. — On motion of Mr. RANDOLPH, on the suggestion of Mr. G. MORRIS,...

...Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,...Constitution, for the government of ourselves and our posterity.'1 The change of this expression of the organic will, to that of 'We, the people of the United...

...from the constitution as originally reported on August 6, and the action of the convention thereon. " We the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...government shall be the United States of America. " Tuesday, Aug. 7. IN CONVENTION. The report of the committee of detail being taken up, ..." " Article...