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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 2: (search)
lished by the people of the United States in the aggregate. If such had been the case, the will of a majority, duly ascertained and expressed, would have been binding upon the minority. No such idea existed in its formation. It was not even established by the states in the aggregate, nor was it proposed that it should be. It was submitted for the acceptance of each separately, the time and place at their own option, so that the dates of ratification did extend from December 7, 1787, to May 29, 1790. The long period required for these ratifications makes manifest the absurdity of the assertion, that it was a decision by the votes of one people, or one community, in which a majority of the votes cast determined the result. We have seen that the delegates to the convention of 1787 were chosen by the several states, as states— it is hardly necessary to add that they voted in the convention, as in the federal Congress, by states—each state casting one vote. We have seen, also, that
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 3: (search)
l assured that the most important provisions of her proposed amendments and declaration of rights would be adopted, she acceded to the amendment compact. On November 21, 1789, her convention agreed, in behalf of the freemen, citizens, and inhabitants of the State of North Carolina, to adopt and ratify the Constitution. In Rhode Island the proposed Constitution was at first submitted to a direct vote of the people, who rejected it by an overwhelming majority. Subsequently—that is, on May 29, 1790, when the reorganized government had been in operation for nearly fifteen months, and when it had become reasonably certain that the amendments thought necessary would be adopted—a convention of the people of Rhode Island acceded to the new Union, and ratified the Constitution, though even then by a majority of only two votes in sixty-six—34 to 32. The ratification was expressed in substantially the same language as that which has now been so repeatedly cited: We, the delegates of th<