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people of each state, severally and independently. No other people were known to the authors of the declarations above quoted. Madison was a leading member of the Virginia convention, which made that declaration, as well as of the general convention that drew up the Constitution. We have seen what his idea of the people of the United States was—not the people as composing one great body, but the people as composing thirteen sovereignties. Elliott's Debates, Vol. III, p. 114. Lee of Westmoreland (Light-horse Harry) in the same convention, answering Henry's objection to the expression, We, the people, said: It [the Constitution] is now submitted to the people of Virginia. If we do not adopt it, it will be always null and void as to us. Suppose it was found proper for our adoption, and becoming the government of the people of Virginia, by what style should it be done? Ought we not to make use of the name of the people? No other style would be proper. Ibid., p. 71. It would certa