 | Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...and the laws, the Union is unbroken." This view was repeated in his first annual message. He said, "The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status." This view would imply that the question of Reconstruction was an executive function. As the President... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 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...they can only do so against law and by revolution." Two months later he had entered the long torment of his trouble with a great body of shallow - minded... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 444 pages
...that reserved to them in the Union by the Constitution — no one of them ever having been a State out of the Union. . . . The States have their status in...themselves separately, procured their independence. . . . The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact, it created them as States." The rights... | |
 | Charles Richard Williams - 1914 - 550 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.... | |
 | Henry William Carless Davis - Political science - 1914 - 346 pages
...only a convenience. Lincoln expressed the truth well and briefly in the last war,1 when he said : ' The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other status.' So it is in reality ; they are subjects, and, when the South rose up in opposition to the... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1916 - 398 pages
...our States except Texas ever was a sovereignty. And even Texas gave up the character on coming Into the Union . . . 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. Originally... | |
 | Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - Constitutional law - 1916 - 446 pages
...political superior?' Tested by this, no one of our states, except Texas, ever was a sovereignty. These states have their status in the Union and they have no other legal status. If they seceded from this they can only do so against the law and by revolution. The Union and not themselves... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - Genealogy - 1927 - 336 pages
...rebelled against their master and in union achieved their liberty could it be said : ' 'The freedmen have their status in the union and they have no other legal status. The union is older than any of the freedmen. and, in fact, it created them as freedmen." Webster argued... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 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.... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Presidents - 1922 - 512 pages
...passed^ To put this idea in its'~Eoldest and its simplest' terms was the crowning effort of the message. "The States have their status in the Union and they...separately, procured their independence and their liberty. Kv ^nnqnpst nr pnrrhaspr .theJLJnion gave each of \tnCTrfwttatever of independence and liberty it has.... | |
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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. 
