 | Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 480 pages
...using the following language — " How do you like onr new constitution ? I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to what such an assembly has proposed." He then enumerates several objections, and says — " I think all the good of this new constitution... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 458 pages
...using the following language — " How do you like otir new constitution ? I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to what such ah assembly has proposed." He then.enumerates several objections, and says — " I think all the good... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 636 pages
...November he writes to Mr. Adams, " How do you like our new constitution ? I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe...be elected from four years to four years for life. Ecason and experience prove to us that a chief magistrate so continuable is an office for life. When... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 pages
...is." And Mr. Jefferson himself said of it in a letter to Mr. Adams, (Tucker's Life, Vol. I. p. 253,) "The house of federal representatives will not be...affairs, either foreign or federal. Their president seems to be a. bad edition of a Polish king. He may be elected from four years to four years for life. Reason... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 626 pages
...Philadelphia had risen, "there are things in it, which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to wha* such an assembly has proposed. The House of Federal...Their President seems a bad edition of a Polish king. * * * I think all the good of this new Constitution might have been couched in three or four new articles,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 pages
...John Adams, November 18, 1787 : " How do }*ou like our new Constitution ? I confess there are things in it, which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to what such an assembly had proposed. * * * Indeed I think all the good in this new Constitution might have been couched in... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...winds up his objections by declaring that the president, as provided for in the Federal Constitution, " seems a bad edition of a Polish king. He may be elected from four years to four years for life."* This feature of the Constitution, however, has so far with us proved less serious in practice than... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 pages
...opinion of the old Constitution, I will now quote his opinion of the new: "I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to ,what such an assembly has proposed. Their President seems a bad edition of a Polish king. * * Indeed, I think, all the good of this new... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 pages
...opinion of the old Constitution, I will now quote his opinion of the new : " I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to what such an assembly has proposed. Their President seems a bad edition of a Polish king. * * Indeed, I think, all the good of this new... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 596 pages
...Philadelphia had risen, "there are things in it, which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to wha* such an assembly has proposed. The House of Federal...Their President seems a bad edition of a Polish king. * * * I think all the good of this new Constitution might have been couched in three or four new articles,... | |
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How do you like our new constitution? I confess there are things in it which stagger all my dispositions to subscribe to what such an assembly has proposed. The house of federal representatives will not be adequate to the management of affairs either... 
