 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...one of the declared objocU APPENDIX. for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' to form a more perfect union.' "But if destruction of the...than before, the Constitution having lost the vital clement of perpetuity. " It follows from these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views>that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, haying lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State upon its own... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." ./ i_But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitutionj^iaving lost the vital element of perpetuity. Lit follows from these views that no State... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is jess perfect than befpre the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. Itjollows from.these_views... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 796 pages
...in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is tess perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 602 pages
...contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part...follows from these views that no State, upon its own motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect VOL. XV.—... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union...perpetuity. It follows from these views, that no State, upon ita own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 pages
...in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union...perpetuity. It follows from these views, that no State, upcn its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. "It follows from these views... | |
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Confederation, in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, 'to form a more perfect Union. 
