 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 Legislation, and its Laws be supreme & controul the whole, the Idea of Sovereignty in these States must be...  Famous Americans of Recent Times - Сторінка 179автори: James Parton - 1867 - 473 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 616 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... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 562 стор.
...confederation. " "I stumble at the threshold, ' ' said Samuel Adams, on first reading the document. "I meet with a national government, instead of a federal union of sovereign States." Said a member of the first North Carolina Convention, "I am astonished that the servants of the Legislature... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 390 стор.
...first came into his hands he did not like it. "I stumble at the threshold," he wrote Lee in December. " I meet with a national government, instead of a federal union of sovereign states." ' The Federalists feared his opposition, for he had already expressed his dissatisfaction;3 but for... | |
 | Samuel Adams - 1908 - 468 стор.
...Constitution as it is already called, so closely as 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... | |
 | Anson Ely Morse - 1909 - 248 стор.
...NY Public Library. (10) S. Adama to RH Lee. Dec. 3. 1787: "I confesa when [word Illegible] Bulldlnc. I stumble at the Threshold. I meet with a National Government Instead of a federal I'nlon of Sovereign State«." S. Adams MSS.. NY Public Library. C. Gore to King. Dec. 23. 178T. King:... | |
 | Anson Ely Morse - 1909 - 248 стор.
...Adams to RH Lee. Dec. 3, 1787: "1 confess when [word 11legihle] Building, 1 stumhle at the Threshold. 1 meet with a National Government instead of a federal Union of Sovereign States." S. Adams MSS., NY Puhlic Lihrary. C. Gore to King, Dec. 23, 1787. King: King, 1:265; Same to same,... | |
 | James William Latta - 1909 - 48 стор.
...consent alone ratification hinged, said "he was startled when on entering the 'new building' he met with a national government instead of a federal union of sovereign states." And "Nason of Maine stubbornly refused to support a constitution which destroyed the sovereignty of... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1909 - 980 стор.
...period is the well-known one to Richard Henry Lee, in which Adams says after reading the Constitution, " I confess as I enter the Building I stumble at the Threshold." Several letters, written in the last decade of the century, interestingly disclose at once his old... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1909 - 960 стор.
...period is the well-known one to Richard Henry Lee, in which Adams says after reading the Constitution, " I confess as I enter the Building I stumble at the Threshold." Several letters, written in the last decade of the century, interestingly disclose at once his old... | |
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