 | Vermont gen. assembly, senate - 1845 - 390 lehte
...the preamble to the Constitution of Ihe United States, in declaring the objects of the Union to be " to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," bears a construction unfavorable to the annexation of Texas. It has been... | |
 | Vermont. General Assembly. Senate - 1846 - 610 lehte
...manifested in the Constitution. The object of the establishment of the Constitution was declared to be " to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ;" — and this was based upon, and was a practical application of, the... | |
 | 1847 - 724 lehte
...practical men, for practical purposes, declared in the preamble. ' To provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty ;' and was mainly designed to create a government, whose functions should be adequate to the protection... | |
 | 1847 - 726 lehte
...practical raen, for practical purposes, declared in the preamble. ' To provide lor the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty ;' and was mainly designed to create a government, whose functions should be adequate to the protection... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1848 - 728 lehte
...practical men f&r practical purposes, declared in its preamble " to provide for the common defence ; to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty," and was mainly designed to create a government whose functions should and would be adequate to the... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1851 - 428 lehte
...justice among them — to insure their domestic tranquillity, to provide for their common defence and general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to them and their posterity. Taken all together, it follows, from what has been stated, that the constitution was ordained and established... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1851 - 436 lehte
...justice among them — to insure their domestic tranquillity, to provide for tlmr common defence and general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to them and their posterity. Taken all together, it follows, from what has been stated, that the constitution was ordained and established... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 492 lehte
...practical men, for practical purposes, declared in the preamble — ' to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty ;' and was mainly designed to create a government, whose functions should be adequate to the protection... | |
 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - 1854 - 234 lehte
...Constitution rerçews them, when it declares its object to be, among other things, " to establish justice, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity.'' ThuB, according to undeniable words, the Constitution was ordained, not... | |
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We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquillity, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and... 
