| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 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...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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...only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is jess perfect than befpre the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. Itjollows from.these_views... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1894 - 1068 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." Again at Gettysburg he said : Fourscore and seven years ago [1776] our fathers brought forth on this... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...expressly pJighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared* objects...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." ./ i_But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 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...the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union. — Abraham Lincoln. The Constitution of the United States forms a government, not a league, and whether... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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...union. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by part only of the states be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than: before, the Constitution... | |
| Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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 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 lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 528 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... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 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... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 540 pages
...objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only...the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
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