 | 1861 - 456 pages
...declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "io form a more perfect union." ^f But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part...Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. ^f It follows from these views that no State. upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1861 - 462 pages
...declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "<o form a mart perfect union."' Tf But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part...Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. 1J It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 586 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, ' to form a more perfect Union.' Bat, if the destruction of the Union, by one or by a part only of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is lea than before — the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetnity. . "It follows, from... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 336 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778 ; and finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | 1862 - 200 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778, and, finally, in 1789. " One of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...to form a more perfect Union ; but if destruction by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before the Constitution,... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 764 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 910 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1864 - 210 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
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It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally,... 
