 | Joseph Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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 - United States - 1903 - 460 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, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 342 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation of 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect union."4 In the secessionists' interpretation of history, the states are older than the Union— in... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...This collection contains the most important source for the various working sheets of the Inaugural. the declared objects for ordaining and establishing...Constitution, was 'to form a more perfect Union.' " Although Lincoln's support of his proposition was factual, the facts themselves carried with them... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 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." [SW 2.217-18] Of course, the "states' rights" school of constitutional interpretation did not — and... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778"; finally "in 1787, one of the declared objects for...Constitution, was 'to form a more perfect Union.'" Although Lincoln's support of his proposition was factual, the facts themselves carried with them the... | |
 | Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - Business & Economics - 1997 - 300 pages
...expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1777. And, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects...the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union." 16. Morse, p. 431. 17. Morse, p. 433. Notwithstanding the conditions imposed on the six former Confederate... | |
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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,... 
