[Footnote 38: Elliott's "Debates" (Washington edition, 1836), vol. iii,
p. 54.]
[Footnote 39: Ibid., p. 72.]
[Footnote 40: Elliott's "Debates" (Washington edition, 1836), vol. iii,
pp. 114, 115.]
[Footnote 41: Journal of the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787, 1
Elliott's "Debates."]
[Footnote 42: For a very striking illustration, see Deuteronomy vii, 6,
7.]
CHAPTER VI.
The Preamble to the Constitution--subject continued.--Growth of
the Federal Government and Accretions of Power.--Revival of Old
Errors.--Mistakes and Misstatements.--Webster, Story, and
Everett.--Who "ordained and established" the Constitution?
In the progressive growth of the Government of the United States in
power, splendor, patronage, and consideration abroad, men have been led
to exalt the place of the _Government_ above that of the _States_ which
_created_ it. Those who would understand the true principles of the
Constitution can not afford to lose sight of the essential _plurality_
of idea invariably implied in the term "United States," wherever it is
used in that instrument. No such unit as the United States is ever
mentioned therein. We read that "no title of nobility shall be granted
by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or
trust under _them_ shall, without the consent of Congress, accept,"
etc.[43] "The President ... shall not receive, within that period, any
other emolument from the United States, or any of _them_.
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