 | 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... | |
 | History, Modern - 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... | |
 | Charles Lempriere - United States - 1861 - 336 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...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows from these... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 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...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows, from these... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 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...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. "It follows from these views... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was 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, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views... | |
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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. 
