 | Roger L. Ransom - Confederate States of America - 2005 - 376 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...are insurrectionary or revolutionary according to circumstance."43 Scholars have debated at length the legal points in Lincoln's assertion that secession... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect, are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United...my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itaelf expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully executed in all the... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...Union. Legislative acts allowing for secession "are "legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United...insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances." 13 Lincoln called the whole idea of secession "anarchy." The rule of the majority adheres to "constitutional... | |
 | Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 pages
...Union,—that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to the circumstances ... A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...that resolves and unlinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing (his I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United...expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and... | |
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It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United... 
