 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution,...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator 01 the Universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...United States to exclude slavery from the soil of California, he proceeds to inform us that, " There ia a. higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain and devotee it to the same noble purposes."* " We deem the principle of the law for the recapture of fugitives,... | |
 | Samuel Thayer Spear - 1850 - 36 pages
...defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Idyker law than the Constitution, which regnlates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part—no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte Chase - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 574 pages
...uncertainty exists. That Constitution which was framed by the wisdom law of nature and of nations." " But there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the llomnin, and devotes it to the name noble purposes." — Speech of Mr. II. Neicani, US Senate, March,... | |
 | William Henry Seward - California - 1850 - 24 pages
...stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to. liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which resulates our authority over the domain, and;devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 872 pages
...stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution,...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposea The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 910 pages
...stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulatei our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is... | |
 | William Hosmer - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 226 pages
...stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution,...bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree... | |
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The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it... 
