 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...with its people by merely calling it a State? (July 5, 1861, First Annual Message— Raymond, p. 194.) The States have their status in the Union, and they...the Union gave each of them whatever of independence or liberty it has. The Union is older than any of the States, and in fact it created them as States.... | |
 | Law - 1900 - 862 pages
...language of King above quoted this from the first message of Mr. Lincoln to congress, July 4, 1861 : " The States have their status in the Union, and they have no ether legal status. * * * The Union is older than "any of the States, and, in fact, it created them... | |
 | Richard Ellsworth Fast, Hu Maxwell - West Virginia - 1901 - 536 pages
...the People, constituted with different powers, and designated for different purposes." — MADISON. . "The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. The Union is older than any of the States, and in fact, it created them as States Not one of Ifcem... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...status. They can break from this, only against the law, and by revolution. The Union, not the States themselves, separately, procured their independence...their liberty. By conquest or purchase, the Union had given each of them whatever of independence or liberty it promised. 'The Union is older than any... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...status. They can break from this, only against the law, and by revolution. The Union, not the States themselves, separately, procured their independence...their liberty. By conquest or purchase, the Union had given each of them whatever of independence or liberty it promised. 'The Union is older than any... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
..."unbroken." His special message to Congress on July 4, 1861, added the supplementary declaration that "the States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status." The same message contained the further definition : "The people of Virginia have thus allowed this... | |
 | Louis Le Fur, Paul Posener - Federal government - 1902 - 416 pages
...jedoch wenig praktische Bedeutung. g) Vgl. die Botschaft des Präsidenten Lincoln vom 4. Juli 1861: the states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. §41. Organisation der Bnndesgewalt. A. Gesetzgebung. Die Gesetzgebung gehört zur Zuständigkeit des... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1903 - 710 pages
...are the foundation of government within the United States. President Lincoln truly said in 1861 : " The states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status," yet state organization preceded national organization, and to this day underlies it. If all the states... | |
 | Oliver Morris Wilson - United States - 1905 - 288 pages
...Lincoln was right when he declared in his first message to Congress that 'the States have their stahis in the Union, and they have no other legal status....against law and by revolution. The Union, and not themselveis separately, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...the United States made in pursuance of the Constitution, to be for her the supreme law of the land. The States have their status in the Union, and they...the Union gave each of them whatever of independence or liberty it has. The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact, it created them as States.... | |
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The states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution. 
