 | Abraham Lincoln - 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 448 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... | |
 | George Parker Winship - 1894 - 182 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1894 - 1068 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." Again at Gettysburg he said : Fourscore and seven years ago [1776] our fathers brought forth on this... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 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...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." ./ i_But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 394 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...the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. — Abraham Lincoln. The Constitution of the United States forms a government, not a league, and whether... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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 part only of the states be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 800 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...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 - 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.—... | |
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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,... 
