| Richard Henry Lee - 1825 - 254 стор.
...as it is already called, so closely as it was necessary for me, before I should venture an opinion. I confess, as I enter the building I stumble at the...able to conceive, why the wisdom of the convention lead them to give the preference to the former, before the latter. If the several states in the union,... | |
| William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 562 стор.
...as it is already called, so closely as it was necessary for me, before I should venture an opinion. I confess, as I enter the building, I stumble at the...latter. If the several States in the Union are to become one entire nation under one Legislature, the powers of which shall extend to every subject of... | |
| Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - 656 стор.
...being indicated by the following extract from a letter to Richard Henry Lee, dated December 3, 1787 : "I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government, instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
| George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 стор.
...town meetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states ; " but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting... | |
| George Fitch - 1883 - 276 стор.
...new Constitution a reluctant support, used this language in a letter to a friend : " I confess, aj I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....national government instead of a federal union of the States. If the several States of the Union are to be one entire nation, under one legislature,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 стор.
...its townmeetings and general court, that he was startled when, on entering the new " building, he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states;" but, in direct antagonism to George Mason and Richard Henry Lee, he had always approved granting to... | |
| 1886 - 190 стор.
...had been in the South, also found much to criticise in the new Constitution. " I confess," he wrote, "as I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter." It was probably owing to his strong State-rights views that he had not been chosen a delegate to the... | |
| United States - 1887 - 62 стор.
...had been in the South, also found much to criticise in the new Constitution. " I confess," he wrote, "as I enter the building, I stumble at the threshold....give the preference to the former before the latter." It was probably owing to his strong State-rights views that he had not been chosen a delegate to the... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1891 - 508 стор.
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said : — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1891 - 502 стор.
...figure of revolutionary times, in a letter to Richard Henry Lee, of December 3, 1787, has said: — I stumble at the threshold. I meet with a national...government instead of a federal union of sovereign states. ... If the several states are to become one entire nation, under one legislature, its powers to extend... | |
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