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" That any vote of secession or other act by which any State may undertake to put an end to the supremacy of the Constitution within its territory is inoperative and void against the Constitution, and when sustained by force it becomes a practical abdication... "
The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States - Page 54
by Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1919 - 322 pages
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Republicanism in America: A History of the Colonial and Republican ...

Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 698 pages
...hostilities: "1. Resolved, That any vote of secession or other net by -which any State may undertake to pat an end to the supremacy of the Constitution within...void against the Constitution, and when sustained by forco it becomes a practical abifical'ion by the State, of nil rights under the Constitution, while...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 6

Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...and think the view thou hast taken is correct : that any vote of secession, or other act by which a State may undertake to put an end to the supremacy...Constitution within its territory, is inoperative and void nguinst the Constitution, and, when sustained by force, is practical abdication by the State of all...
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Republicanism in America: A History of the Colonial and Republican ...

Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...un end to the supremacy of tho Constitution within its territory is inoperative and void against tho Constitution, and when sustained by force it becomes a practical abdication by tho State, of all rights under the Constitution, while tho treason which it involves still further...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 6

Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 540 pages
...supremacy : Therefore, — 1. Resolved-, That any vote of secession, or other act, by a State hostile to the supremacy of the Constitution within its territory, is inoperative and void against thc Constitution, and, when sustained by foree, becomes a practical abdication by the State of all...
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The Theory of Our National Existence: As Shown by the Action of ..., Volume 959

John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 654 pages
...singly or in confederation in order to put an end to its supremacy, Therefore — 1. Resolved, that any vote of secession or other act, by which any State...against the Constitution, and, when sustained by force, becomes a practical abdication by the State of all rights under the Constitution, while 1 This suggests...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...put an em! to it« supremacy : Therefore — 1. Resolved, That any vote of secession or other net bj which any State may undertake to put an end to the...supremacy of the Constitution within its territory ¡я inoperative and void against the Constitution, and when sustained liy force it bet-omen a practical...
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Political Science Quarterly, Volume 2

Electronic journals - 1887 - 732 pages
...1862, but tabled. 1 The basis of the series is contained in the declaration that any act by which a state may undertake to put an end to the supremacy of the constitution within its territory is void, and, if sustained by force, such act is a practical abdication by the state of all rights under...
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Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America

Eben Greenough Scott - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...Senate by Charles Sumner of nine resolutions,2 of which the first one was as follows : " Resolved, that any vote of secession or other act by which any state...inoperative and void against the Constitution, and when maintained by force it becomes a practical abdication by the state of all rights under the Constitution,...
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Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America

Eben Greenough Scott - Constitutional history - 1895 - 462 pages
...Senate by Charles Snmiier of nine resolutions,2 of which the first one was as Allows : " Itesolved, that any vote of secession or other act by which any state...supremacy of the Constitution within its territory, in inoperative and void against the Constitution, and whon maintained by force it becomes a practical...
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Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences, Volume 8

Social sciences - 1896 - 566 pages
...Constitution, to be held ^ The first resolution declares that a vote of secession is \ rfrlj void as against the Constitution, "and when sustained by force""...all rights under the Constitution, while the treason which it involves still further works an instant forfeiture of all those functions y s l.. ••.;.,...
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