 the need of a national government that should deal with the individual citizens of the whole country and not with the States. " To be fearful," he continued, " of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes,...  George Washington - Seite 26von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 Seiten
...a manner, as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is,...the very climax of popular absurdity and madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the * gee Letter to James MeHenry, gparks, ix. 12i.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 Seiten
...a manner, as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is,...the very climax of popular absurdity and madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the * Bee Letter to James MeHenry, Bparks, ix. 12l.... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - 2005 - 595 Seiten
..."our affairs are drawing rapidly to a crisis" and reminded him that "to be fearful of investing in Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample...the very climax of popular absurdity and madness." He snapped to Humphreys about the people, "What, gracious God, is man that there should be such inconsistency... | |
 | Calvin H. Johnson - 2005 - 324 Seiten
...See also Washington to Jay (Aug. 15, 1786), in 3 PJJat 208 (saying that "[t]o be fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, ably argued, the Anti-Federalists were not looking for more democracy, they were looking for state... | |
 | Calvin H. Johnson - 2005 - 324 Seiten
...See also Washington to Jay (Aug. 15, 1786), in 3 PJJat 208 (saying that "[t]o be fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, very ably argued, the Anti-Federalists were not looking for more democracy, they were looking for state... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 Seiten
...a manner, as the authority of the State Governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is,...the very climax of popular absurdity and madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public, without injuring themselves in an equal... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1838 - 578 Seiten
...authority of the different state governments extends over the several states. " To be fearful of vesting Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample...the very climax of popular absurdity and madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment of the public without injuring themselves in an equal or... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 616 Seiten
...crutches and tottering at every step." Again, ii writing to Mr. Jay, he says : " To be fearful oí investing Congress, constituted as that body is with ample authorities for national purposes, ap pears to me the climax of popular absurdity ant madness. Could Congress exert them for the detriment... | |
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