 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 820 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 of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is tess perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 pages
...engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 178 7, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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 States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. It follows from... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 602 pages
...violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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 - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 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...perpetuity. It follows from these views, that no State, upcn its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that... | |
 | James Daniel Richardson, United States. President - Presidents - 1899 - 818 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 ordaining and establishing the Constitution was ' ' lo form a more perfect Union." But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 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. 92 94 (June 20, 1848,... | |
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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,... 
