Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... government , ' which latter phrase , though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government , was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : that if any one man choose to enslave another , no third man ...
... government , ' which latter phrase , though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government , was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : that if any one man choose to enslave another , no third man ...
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... Government under which we live ? " The answer must be : The Constitution of the United States . ' That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ( and under which the present Government first went into operation ) , and ...
... Government under which we live ? " The answer must be : The Constitution of the United States . ' That Constitution consists of the original , framed in 1787 ( and under which the present Government first went into operation ) , and ...
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... Government , " Upon this , Douglas holds the affirmative , and Republicans the negative . This affirmative and denial form an issue ; and this issue this question - is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood better than ...
... Government , " Upon this , Douglas holds the affirmative , and Republicans the negative . This affirmative and denial form an issue ; and this issue this question - is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood better than ...
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... Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama . In both deeds of cession it was made a condition by the ceding ...
... Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama . In both deeds of cession it was made a condition by the ceding ...
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... government under which we live , who have , upon their official responsibility and their corporal oaths , acted upon the very question which the text affirms they ' understood just as well , and even better than we do now ; and twenty ...
... government under which we live , who have , upon their official responsibility and their corporal oaths , acted upon the very question which the text affirms they ' understood just as well , and even better than we do now ; and twenty ...
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