 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of the Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is loss than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. " It follows from these... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be Eerpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, nally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is lesa than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpptuity. " It follows from these... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1865 - 342 pages
...Confederation, in 1778; and, finally, in 1787, o"ie of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing tlie Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. But...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less th-in before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity. "It follows from these... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before, the Constitution having lost the vital...these views, that no State, upon its own mere motion, csn lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was ' to form a more perfect union' " But if destruction of the Union, by one or by a part only of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederaiion in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was " to form a more perfect union." But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetnal, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. ment; that without it. I suppose he thinks, wo might...than we have done this in spito of it. That limy b destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...Constitution was 'to form a more perfect union.' "But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. An. I. finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for...Constitution was 'to form a more perfect union.' "But if destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfally possible, the Union... | |
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It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally,... 
