 | Democratic Party (U.S.) National committee, 1884-1888 - Campaign literature - 1884 - 314 pages
...then he adds, in that strikmg language which gives to an old truth new force and significance, that ' the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. ' " Horatio Seymour on State and Federal Powers. Another and admirable statement of our theory of government... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The constitution in all its provisions looks to "...indestructible union composed of indestructible states." 1 The constitution, a revolutionary settlement, put side by side these indestructible sovereignties.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 792 pages
...unlawful acts of usurping State governments, and not the acts of the States themselves, inasmuch as " the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States;" and that, consequently, the war itself was not a war between the States, nor a war of the United States... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...then he adds, in that striking language which gives to an old truth new force and significance, that " the constitution, in all its provisions, looks to...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible states." Texas v. White, supra. And Mr. Justice Nelson, also speaking for the court, in 1871, used this language:... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Political Science - 1886 - 800 pages
...unreasonably said that the preservation of the 1 7 Wall. 700. a Ibid. 720, 721. « Ibid. 724, 725. states and the maintenance of their governments are...indestructible Union composed of indestructible states." In accordance with this reasoning, it was held that the states joining in the secession at no time... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1891 - 856 pages
...In fact, though the dictum of Chief Justice Chase, in Texas vs. White, 7 Wall., pp. 700-725, that " the Constitution in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States," accurately expresses a legal principle, the Constitution, if it is to fulfil the purposes for which... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional law - 1887 - 400 pages
...same standpoint, had just as little an existence without the states. The supreme court says that " the constitution in all its provisions looks to an...indestructible Union composed of indestructible states." * The same authority declares in Cohens vs. Virginia: " America has chosen to be in many respects and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 672 pages
...separate and independent autonomy to the states through their union under this Constitution, which in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union composed of indestructible states. 3 The federal government possesses only the powers delegated to it by this Constitution, but while... | |
 | William Lyne Wilson - 1888 - 676 pages
...the States respectfully or to the people, and we have already had occasion to remark at this term, that ' the people of each State compose a State having...The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructable Union, composed of indestructable States." Texas vs. White, 7 Wall., 725. A wrongful... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...in the December term of 1868, he held the following measured and significant language : " Not only can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy...all its provisions looks to an indestructible Union of indestructible States" EVENING SESSION. THURSDAY, April 29, 1886. To the surprise and satisfaction... | |
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Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments,... 
