Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 2Century Company, 1894 - United States |
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... Constitution and the laws , can be given , will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded , for whatever cause - as cheerfully to one section as to another . There is much controversy about the delivering up of ...
... Constitution and the laws , can be given , will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded , for whatever cause - as cheerfully to one section as to another . There is much controversy about the delivering up of ...
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... 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 less perfect than before the Constitution , having lost the vital element ...
... 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 less perfect than before the Constitution , having lost the vital element ...
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... constitutional rights can be maintained . Is it true , then , that any right , plainly written in the Constitution , has been denied ? I think not . Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the auda- city of ...
... constitutional rights can be maintained . Is it true , then , that any right , plainly written in the Constitution , has been denied ? I think not . Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the auda- city of ...
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... Constitution does not expressly say . From questions of this class spring all our constitutional contro- versies , and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities . If the minority will not acquiesce , the majority must , or the ...
... Constitution does not expressly say . From questions of this class spring all our constitutional contro- versies , and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities . If the minority will not acquiesce , the majority must , or the ...
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... constitutional right of amending it , or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it . I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended . While ...
... constitutional right of amending it , or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it . I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended . While ...
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