 | United States. Electoral Commission (1877) - Presidents - 1877 - 1100 pages
...electors is not inherent in a State, but derivative from the Constitution of the United States, which is as much a part of the constitution of every State as it is of the United States. Every word and every letter of this Constitution is as binding on the State... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1877 - 322 pages
...electors is not inherent in a State, but derivative from the Constitution of the United States, which is as much a part of the constitution of every State as it is of the United States. Every word and every letter of this Constitution is as binding on the State... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 1022 pages
...friendship. In the cabinet Judge Black strenuously opposed secession. In one of his opinions he says: " The Union is necessarily perpetual. No state can lawfully...the constitution of every state as if it had been textuatly inserted therein. The federal government is sovereign, within its own sphere, and acts directly... | |
 | Jeremiah Sullivan Black - Biography - 1885 - 650 pages
...perpetual. No State could lawfully withdraw or be lawfully expelled from it. The Federal Constitution was as much a part of the ' Constitution of every State as if it had been textually inserted therein.' The Federal Government was sovereign within its own sphere, and 'acted directly upon the individual... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 562 pages
...The reason was soon clear. Black had changed his views, as he explained seven years after : he an4 Stanton had reached perfect accord on all questions,...seen a great light between November and December. 296 Black remained at Stanton's side in this crisis and rendered great service. He deserves to have... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...No State can lawfully withdraw or be expelled from it. The federal consti1 See chapter Tiii. tution is as much a part of the constitution of every State as if it had been textually inserted therein. The federal government is sovereign within its own sphere, and acts directly upon the individual citizens... | |
 | Webster Perit Huntington - Ohio - 1906 - 664 pages
...Southern states and the President and his Cabinet, all tending to a peaceful dissolution of the Union. General Cass, Secretary of State, loyal to the Union,...seen a great light between November and December. It would have been well had he consulted Stanton before giving his opinion of the previous month which... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 538 pages
...Southern states and the President and his Cabinet, all tending to a peaceful dissolution of the Union. General Cass, Secretary of State, loyal to the Union,...seen a great light between November and December. It would have been well had he consulted Stanton before giving his opinion of the previous month, which... | |
 | Joseph Beatty Doyle - Edwin McMasters Stanton Statue (Steubenville, Ohio) - 1911 - 544 pages
...policy." It is so exactly opposite to his first opinion that no apology is needed for its reproduction : The Union is necessarily perpetual. No state can lawfully...as much a part of the constitution of every state asi if it had been textually inserted therein. The federal government is sovereign within its own sphere,... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 540 pages
...Southern states and the President and his Cabinet, all tending to a peaceful dissolution of the Union. General Cass, Secretary of State, loyal to the Union,...seen a great light between November and December. It would have been well had he consulted Stanton before giving his opinion of the previous month, which... | |
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Union, resigned because the president refused to reinforce the Southern forts. Meanwhile Secretary of State Black, and Stanton, who was then only a private citizen, had been in deep and earnest consultation, and Black took Cass's place only on condition... 