 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1312 pages
...government with powers derived directly from the people, and the Constitution's preamble provides that "We the People of the United States... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (A Lee from the Virginia family contended bitterly that it should... | |
 | David P. Currie - 1992 - 518 pages
...apply its methodology to the cases . 11U.S. CONST, amend. VIII. nld., art. II, § 1. "Id. , preamble: "We, the People of the United States, ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 14Easterbrook, Substance and Due Process, 1982 SUP. CT. REV. 85,... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - 1993 - 320 pages
...about to describe, combining an Enlightenment reference to the supposed origin of constitutional power ("We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution") with the age-old claim that its dominion is good for its subjects ("in order to form a more perfect... | |
 | Michael J. Perry - 1996 - 288 pages
...when they were the living members of the community and we were not even born. The Constitution begins: "We the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Well, "We the people of the United States" now living did not, not... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 pages
...people. The Constitution of the United States, the highest law of the land, begins with the words: "We, the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." When a criminal is arrested or punished, the order reads not in... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - 1994 - 332 pages
...privileges of Citizenship."5 It may be seen as remarkable that the Philadelphia Convention should write "We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution" yet withhold from their draft any assertion that the duly acknowledged citizens of the several states... | |
 | Michel Rosenfeld - 1994 - 452 pages
...have a prior collective identity in order to possess the capacity to exercise a constituent power? "We the people of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution . . . ."9 Does this mean that the collectivity of the people exists prior to the constitution or is... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1994 - 242 pages
...right of the People ... to institute new Government ...“ ii. Preamble to the US Constitution--”We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. “iii. Gettysburg Address--”Government of the People, by the People... | |
 | Christian Starck - 1995 - 474 pages
...Einerseits heißt es in der Präambel zur Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika von 1787: »We the People of the United States ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America«; außerdem sieht die Verfassung auf das Volk zurückführbare Wahlen... | |
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WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION. 
