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" The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. "
Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's ... - Page 117
by Horatio King - 1895 - 419 pages
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Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from February 19, 1787 to ...

James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 pages
...individually. An union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like...all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary, and moved that...
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Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from February 19, 1787 to ...

James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 700 pages
...individually. An union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like...attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by wh^h it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary,...
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Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from February 19, 1787 to ...

James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 pages
...provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a~3eclaration of war than an infliction of punishment; and would...all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary, and moved that...
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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of ..., Volume 5

Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 pages
...individually. A union of the states containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like...all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary, and moved that...
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History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution ..., Volume 2

George Ticknor Curtis - 1858 - 688 pages
...period in the deliberations of the Convention, declared that the use of force against a State would be more like a declaration of war than an infliction...dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.1 At his suggestion, a clause in Governor Randolph's plan authorizing the use of force against...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - 1860 - 600 pages
...opposed it in a brief but powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: "The use of force against a State would look more...all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 580 pages
...it in a brief, but powerful speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: " The use of force against a State would look more like...all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented. Soon...
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Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention: Held at Jefferson ...

Missouri. Convention - 1861 - 336 pages
...individually. A union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like...all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this resource unnecessary, and moved that...
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The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an ...

James Spence - 1861 - 398 pages
...Convention, on the 31st May, 1787, Madison declared that " the use of force against a State would be more like a declaration of war, than an infliction...attacked, as a dissolution of all previous compacts : a union of States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction." Again,...
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Annual Register, Volume 102

Edmund Burke - 1861 - 974 pages
...observed : — ' The use of force against a Stale would look more like a declaration of war than any infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered...dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might bo bound.' Upon this motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was never, I believe, again presented....
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