 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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...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... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 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 - 1900 - 808 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...ordaining and establishing the Constitution was " to forni a more perfect Union:' But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged 'that it should be perpetual by the Articles of Confederation again 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 part only, of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 694 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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And 155 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 isi6o... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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...perpetuity. It follows from these views that no State, upon ite own mere* motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect,... | |
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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,... 
