| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 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...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this... | |
| Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 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...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.1 At his suggestion, a clause in Governor Randolph's plan authorizing... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1860 - 600 pages
...speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: "The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1861 - 580 pages
...speech, from which I shall extract but a single sentence. He observed: " The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound." Upon his motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was... | |
| Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 336 pages
...containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. He hoped that such a system would be framed as might render this... | |
| James Spence - Secession - 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...the party attacked, as a dissolution of all previous compacts : a union of States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction."... | |
| Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 334 pages
...own destruction. The use of force against a State iOHM look more like a deelaration of war than tt infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might ke hound. He hoped that such a system would be ftamed as might render this... | |
| Books - 1861 - 922 pages
...observed : — ' The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than any infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered...the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.' Upon this motion the clause was unanimously postponed, and was... | |
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