...contract; and states the origin of all power in words that have been perpetuated in Lincoln's paraphrase, "It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's...made by the people, and answerable to the people." Other forms of deliberative reasoning succeed to these, by example from history at home and abroad,...

...feature of the Republic ? It is " a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." It is the people's constitution, the people's government;...made by the people ; and answerable to the people. — Daniel Webster. "A government of the people, by the people, and for the people " has been the ideal...

...needy, and the oppressed. Like Daniel Webster, he believed the Government of the United States to be the people's Government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. And I say it reverently, "The common people heard him gladly." And while it may be truthfully said...

...needy, and the oppressed. Like Daniel Webster, he believed the Government of the United States to be the people's Government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. And I say it reverently, "The common people heard him gladly." And while it may be truthfully said...

...four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the. proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably,...

...four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably,...

...four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all. This absurdity (for it seems no less) arises from a misconception...States have declared that this Constitution shall be supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or deny their authority. The States are, unquestionably,...

...rule the great that cannot reach the small. c. SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. V. Canto II. St. 51. al Works. Personal Talk. Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles d. DANIEL WEBSTER — Second Speech on Ibot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. When my eyes ihall be turned...

...translation), is the chief pest of democratic countries. " The people's government " of which Webster spoke, " made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," must conform to the laws of politics and economics. Every citizen should understand somewhat of these...

...that the federal government thus had the power to act directly on the people. "It is," he declared, "the people's Constitution, the people's government,...people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."4 Webster here stood on controversial historical ground. The Constitution, it was true, had...