 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure for ever — it being impossible to destroy it except by some action...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...the meaning of "all governments" as having the duty of self-preservation. Even if the Federal Union be "not a government proper, but an association of states in the nature of a contract merely," the definition of contract presupposes that one member cannot violate it without... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever—it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade, by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. . . . Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."4 In short, as the South learned at a terrible price, self-determination was not applicable... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...people's existence precedes and makes possible the Constitution. Otherwise, "The United States [would] be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract [or pact] merely" (SW 2.217). According to Lincoln and Webster — and, as we shall see,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national...action not provided for in the instrument itself. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1 861 , reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4,... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of states in the nature of contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
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States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the... 
