 Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break...  Annual Register - Page 212edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...execute all the express provisions to our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...the Union will enduro forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not proTided for in the instrument itself. Again, if the United...States be not a government proper, but an association qf States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions to our National Constitution, and the Union will endure...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its own organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute...action not provided for in the instrument itself." The opening sentence of his Springfield speech, June IT, 1858, which was the foundation of his great... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endare forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...execute all the express provisions to our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract-merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...execute all the express provisions to our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever — it being impossible to destroy it, except by some...proper, but an association of States in the nature of the contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made... | |
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