...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 339. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? "Message to Congress in Special Session," July 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,...

...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask : 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'22 Reviewing for Congress the attitude of foreign powers toward the Civil War, Lincoln...

...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'' 2 * Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," supra note 26, at 264-265. 2 "Id. '"Id., at 270, 271. " Lincoln,...

...give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. 6352 of Judgement Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness There people or too weak to maintain its own existence? 6353 With high hope for the future, no prediction...

...practically put an end to free government upon the earth"? "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"s1 Lincoln as president believed he had no choice but to exercise his war powers under the...

..."liberty" meant. In his 1941 Jackson Day address he quoted Lincoln's question to Congress in 1861: " 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' " "Lincoln answered that question as Jackson had answered it — not by words, but by deeds," Roosevelt...

...Southern states puts this very possibility into question, as though such "a government of necessity [must] be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence." Whitman takes up these matters of political theory in his tract "The 18th Presidency!" which opens:...

...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of it's own people, or too weak to maintain it's own existence?" So viewing the issue, the administration...

...to free government upon earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"63 After a lengthy discussion of the constitutional issue of secession, Lincoln returned...

...against its own domestic foes. ... It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a Government, of necessity,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"1 The epigraph is taken from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (New...