 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 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...Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 92 94 (June 20, 1848, Speech in Congress— Complete Works, Vol. I, p. 129.) I wish now to submit a... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...finally, 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...Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity." Then he proceeded to show how, geographically, it was impossible for the States to separate: "We cannot... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 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 isi6o less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Oratory - 1904 - 508 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." 30 But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...follows from these views that no State upon its own mere violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1905 - 762 pages
...the Constitution was ' to form a more perfect Union.' " But if destruction of the Union by one or by part only of the States be lawfully possible, the...these views that no State upon its own mere motion can legally get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that... | |
 | William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - History - 1905 - 640 pages
...the Constitution was 'to form a more perfect Union.' "But if destruction of the Union by one or by part only of the States be lawfully possible, the...these views that no State upon its own mere motion can legally get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 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...Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union;... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1906 - 468 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 ON* Vl :.•.' :-! 'Wi 'VV SHJ. 4125 lawfully possible the Union is less than before. * * * I therefore... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 742 pages
...the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. "But if destruction of tihe Union by one, or by part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the...perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, iipon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that... | |
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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. 
