 | James Albert Woodburn - Constitutional history - 1903 - 432 pages
...to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution. "So a measure, otherwise unconstitutional, may become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Any government, in order to preserve its own life, will construe its powers in such a way as to justify... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...warrant or authority for the edict. Lincoln's own explanation was that " measures otherwise unlawful might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...the nation Right or wrong, I assumed this ground." [1868-1868 A. i . i FREDERICKSBURG AND CHANCELLORSVILLE General Ambrose E. Burnside had been one of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution if to save slavery or any minor matter I should permit the... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - United States - 1906 - 676 pages
...revolution. Still violence had to be met by violence, and war brought him at last to the point of saying that "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation." He was pushed to the point at which he saw that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures 1 The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. Sen Warden's Chase, p. 513; on the making... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...putting the liberating edict in force until it became indispensable (as well as justifiable) as a means " to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation." At length, the time came when the peremptory decree of Emancipation could with reason and certain effectiveness... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 pages
...Lincoln; his was an institutional spirit seeking to govern through Law and Constitution, even when he says that "measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation." That is, he might have to violate the Constitution in part to save it as a whole (as in the Merryman... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1908 - 828 pages
...yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. l felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to tho preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, l assumed... | |
 | Social sciences - 1897 - 818 pages
...that it grew in his mind to be, as the long struggle wore on. He came to feel, as he wrote in 1864, "that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." This is a doctrine without limits, in the mouth of a military commander in time of war. It... | |
 | 1909 - 588 pages
...the constitutionality of this measure is voiced in his statement that "measures otherwise unlawful might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground." 122 NEW YORK; TEACHERS MONOGRAPHS.... | |
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Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet' preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise... 
