 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 350 pages
...in a message (July 4, 1861) to a special session of Congress called to prepare for the Civil War : "The States have their status in the Union, and they...Union, and not themselves separately, procured their independ' ence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase the Union gave each of them whatever of independence... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1924 - 530 pages
...They are thus creations of the Federal State, and, as Lincoln said in his first message to Congress, "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 created them as States." 20 "Bearing upon this... | |
 | Dukumar Dutt - Citizenship - 1926 - 224 pages
...: ' ' The states - • Bee Willonghby'a The Nature of the State, p. 240. » Quoted in ibid, p. 254. 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 created them as states," — which is undoubtedly... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 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.... | |
 | Clifford P. Futcher, United States. Adjutant-General's Office - Citizenship - 1927 - 148 pages
...sought to dissolve our Union, President Lincoln, in a message to Congress July 4, -1861, declared : The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status * * *. The Union, and not themselves separately, procured their independence and liberty. * * * The... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - Political science - 1928 - 652 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... | |
 | Virginia - 1928 - 346 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... | |
 | History - 1980 - 224 pages
...Confederate states, he scored as "an ingenious sophism." Concerning states rights he flatly declared, "The states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status." The war, he said in a global perspective, was not a war between the states. "This is essentially a... | |
 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 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 have no other legal status.... The Union is older than any of the states; and, in fact it created them as states."44 He continued,... | |
 | John V. Denson - History - 1997 - 494 pages
...and that therefore it was an organic, perpetual, indivisible whole. "The States," he told Congress, "have their status IN the Union, and they have no other legal status." Furthermore, he continued, "the Union gave each of them, whatever of independence, and liberty, it... | |
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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. 
