Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson, His Life and Times |
Contents
The Formative Years | 5 |
The Youthful Legislator | 19 |
From Log Cabin to Clapboard Mansion | 37 |
Jeffersonian Congressman | 59 |
Defender of American Rights | 81 |
An Era of Transition | 107 |
Industrial Entrepreneur and Patriot | 127 |
Wartime Congressman | 151 |
Postwar Congressman | 177 |
The Monongalia Navigation Company | 195 |
Constitutional Reform in Virginia | 217 |
The Final Years | 233 |
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Page 255 - Government, the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be, not in the opinions or intentions of the body which planned and proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions, where it received all the authority which it possesses.