William H. Seward Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Purpose, Noble

  William H. Seward's speech at the United States Senate, March 11, 1850.

• I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

  William H. Seward

  Men, Law, Doe

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  William H. Seward

  Ocean, Virginia, United States

• But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Would Be, Answers

• The constitution regulates our 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, which regulates 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 of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Justice, Liberty

• There is a higher law than the Constitution.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Constitution, Black Power

  Speech in Senate during debate on Compromise of 1850, 11 Mar. 1850

• But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

  William H. Seward

  Men, Ethos, Constitution

• But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

  William H. Seward

  Southern, Constitution, States

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