 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 Seiten
...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might otherwise have been expected; and thus the Constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 428 Seiten
...our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible. That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be... | |
 | Edward Millican
...constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but 'of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable. ' " It is a "lesser evil" than disunion, he says. This was Madison's true view of the matter, and it... | |
 | Ralph D. Gray, Michael A. Morrison - 1994 - 478 Seiten
...forming a more perfect Union — that the current unicameral Confederation was inadequate, and that only "a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and...the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensible," could remedy the deficiency. Given both the portentous nature of the convention's recommendation... | |
 | Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 829 Seiten
...framers as gentlemen is also the larger decorum of the true American perspective. In Washington's words, "the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity. " Those who disagree must remember that the document grows out of "mutual deference and concession"... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1994 - 208 Seiten
...Constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result, not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable." A common government, with powers equal to its objects, is called for by the voice, and still more loudly... | |
 | University of Wisconsin--Madison Center for the Study of the American - 1995 - 289 Seiten
...thou hadst read the letter written by the President of the Convention.8 "The Constitution (saith he) which we now present, is the result of a spirit of...of our political situation rendered indispensable." Now is it not the duty of every candid objector to consider this before he makes his remarks? The Convention... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - 1994 - 181 Seiten
...Senate] which is allowed on all hands to be the result, not of theory, but 'of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity...of our political situation rendered indispensable.' " He notes the need for a "common government, with powers equal to its object" and remarks that such... | |
 | Fritz Hirschfeld - 1997 - 256 Seiten
...conceded in his letter to Congress, he and his colleagues had agreed to a series of compromises, that is, "to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected." Unfortunately, the compromises that were reached on slavery proved to have serious consequences. For... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 800 Seiten
...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 deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.... | |
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American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention to be less... 
