 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State upon its...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances. "The Union is much older than the Constitution." I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution... | |
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...whatever his own moral convictions, he neither plans nor desires to abolish slavery. While asserting that 'no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union', he insists that 'you can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors'. As the Confederates... | |
 | History - 2003 - 358 pages
...for any great irritation either to his own Party or to the South. Like his predecessor, he declares "that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and that to the extent of his ability he shall take care that the laws of the Union be faithfully... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State upon its...view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats." * CHAPTER SIX "RIGHT MAKES MIGHT" "No State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. " — Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address, 1861 People crowded into the large hall, overflowing... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...possible the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State upon its...view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon its...view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and, to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Confederate States of America - 2005 - 376 pages
...endure." The rebellion had to be put down, Lincoln asserted in his First Inaugural Address, because "no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully...are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstance."43 Scholars have debated at length the legal points in Lincoln's assertion that secession... | |
 | Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State 65 upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the...of violence within any State or States against the authonity of the United States are insurrectionary 70 or revolutionary, according to circumstances.... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...part only, of the States," was not "lawfully possible." It was the nature of the constitutional order "that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union." Secession ordinances were legally void, and acts ot violence in states against the authority of the... | |
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It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \... 
